Because it is an older product built on two technologies, it has produced inconsistency in code. Although there are problems with the current version of VSX, the future looks bright for it. The many different teams working on the software have been moved into one umbrella group known as the Visual Studio Ecosystem team.
Throughout the past 10 years Visual Studio has continued to grow and new extensibility features have been added. Learning all of the options with their different purposes and implementations is not easy. Many extensibility features are broad topics such as add—ins, macros, and the new domain—specific language tools in Visual Studio. Learning these topics can be difficult because they are not closely related to general. NET programming topics.
This book is for. NET developers who are interested in extending Visual Studio as their development tool. In order to understand the book you must know the following material well: Object—oriented programming OOP , the. NET Framework and. A familiarity with COM programming and different. NET technologies is helpful. The Free Express editions of Visual Studio do not support the extensibility options.
The Visual Studio SDK is needed in order to read some of the chapters in the book and can be downloaded as a free package. The operating system doesn t matter for the content of the book, but all code was written with Visual Studio Team System Edition in Windows Vista x Chapters 1, 2, and 3 will give you an introduction to the basic concepts you need to understand before you can move on to the rest of the book.
Chapter 4 discusses the automation model, which is an important prerequisite for many of the chapters in the book that focus on add—ins, macros, and VSPackages. Chapters 5—14 will utilize add—ins in a case study to learn about the main responsibilities of the automation model and some of the more common techniques used in VSX development.
Each of the following chapters is dedicated to a specific extensibility option; they are independent of one another and you can read them in any order. I could give it a try, but I've already installed Team Suite on my physical Windows 7 machine, so I'd need to sort out a fresh VM to give it a go Actually, though - it probably isn't a good idea to activate your upgrade for real on the beta Windows 7; at some point, you are going to have to scratch that OS completely.
I agree that if the option is meant to be there, then it's absense is a problem. But I haven't used 'trial' before, so I don't know if it is meant to exist!
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