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Im trying to write a editor extension for Visual Studio. I have the downloaded VS SDK and created a new Visual Studio Package project. But the dummy control created for me is a Windows Forms control and not a WPF control. I'm trying to replace it with a WPF-control but not doing so well. Is this possible anyhow? Another related question: Is it only possible to write text-editors? What I really want is a editor that looks more like a form with many different fields. But it doesn't seem to be what this is made for? There are a lot of interfaces on the EditorPane that imply a text-editor model

I would like to write an add-on for IE 8, but I want to use pure managed C#. Is this possible yet? I know for the longest time we were talking only C++. Ultimately, the C# will end up calling into IE8's COM functions. There's a framework called Spicie that makes this easier, and some other examples here: http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/dev.asp Generally, it's a bad idea to write browser extensions in .NET because there's a severe performance impact, and there's the possibility of runtime collisions because only one version of .NET can be loaded into a process currently; if two addons want to use

I'm developing a Word 2007-2010 addin using VSTO in Visual Studio 2008. In my addin, I need a custom task pane for each open word document. Basically, I need to create a task pane for each document, show the correct task pane in the document window, do something on document close and then remove the task pane and all references to it. This is what I have done so far: Task pane creation I create a custom task pane for each new, opened or existing on load document like this: ((ApplicationEvents4_Event) Application).NewDocument += CreateTaskPaneWrapper; Application.DocumentOpen +=

I want to get a reference to the current solution, using the DTE2 object with C# in Visual Studio 2010. I first tried the following code: var dte = Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.10.0") as EnvDTE80.DTE2; But when I open 2 solutions, and this code is in the first solution, I get NOT a reference to the current solution, but a reference to the last solution I loaded. I need the current solution... Searching on the internet, I found the following solution in How do you get the current solution directory from a VSPackage? : // Get an instance of the currently running Visual Studio IDE

I am trying to write a add-in for Visual Studio that, among other things, needs to keep track of every file in a Visual Studio solution. I know what events I need to subscribe to (when a Solution is opened, when a file is added/removed/edited in it, the same for projects, etc), but I don't understand how to actually get a list of files from any of it. I recently installed CodeRush and have been playing with the DXCore framework. I'm very happy with it's approach at plugins, but I still don't see an obvious way to get a list of files in the solution. So to sum it up: How, via the Visual Studio

I am a newbie with add-in programming and need help with the following scenario: I have an C# Excel automation add-in that calls a few UDF s. I want to do a user name and password check during when the automation add-in loads for which a screen where the user can enter his details must pop up on load of the add-in. How can it be done using an automation add-in? How can event handling be done in general using automation addins ? I want some calculations to be done when the user presses F9 to calculate the UDF formula in some of the cells. Are there any articles that explains event handling in

I'd like to provide some way of creating dynamically loadable plugins in my software. Typical way to do this is using the LoadLibrary WinAPI function to load a dll and calling GetProcAddress to get an pointer to a function inside that dll. My question is how do I dynamically load a plugin in C#/.Net application? Zooba The following code snippet (C#) constructs an instance of any concrete classes derived from Base found in class libraries (*.dll) in the application path and stores them in a list. using System.IO; using System.Reflection; List<Base> objects = new List<Base>(); DirectoryInfo dir