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Determined to make the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) learning process as smooth as possible, this helpful resource shows you how to use VSX in order to facilitate easier development of Microsoft programming languages and development technologies. Keyvan Nayyeri examines how VSX simplifies the processes of coding, compilation, deployment, debugging, and testing. Plus, numerous examples, sample code, and real-world case studies demonstrate the various extensibility options of VSX so that you can perform routine tasks easier and quicker.

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Professional Visual Studio® Extensibility

Are you ready to extend the capabilities of Visual Studio to become more efficient and productive? Whether you want to integrate optimized builds, enhanced programming tools, or other rapid application development features, this unique resource shows you how to develop customized extensions. It not only covers the Visual Studio IDE but also provides you with an excellent reference when coding add-ins, macros, and extensions.

After a quick introduction of basic concepts, this book delves into the automation model and add-in development with the help of a case study, numerous examples, and sample code. You'll discover how to take advantage of the Add-in Wizard, manipulate solutions and projects, work with text in documents and programming code, create Tool Options Pages, and more. Next you'll gain an in-depth understanding of specific extensibility options including the Visual Studio Shell and Domain-Specific Languages Tools. After that, you will learn how to integrate your own functionality with Visual Studio with the help of VSPackage. You'll then be able to apply your knowledge to other extensibility points covered in different chapters, including debugger type proxies and visualizers, code snippets, templates, MSBuild, and macros to save time and money when developing applications.

What you will learn from this book

Who this book is for

This book is for .NET developers who are interested in extending Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008. It is also for programmers who want to write highly scalable applications quickly and efficiently. 

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Product Details
  • Paperback: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (March 10, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470230843
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470230848
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 customer review (1 customer review)
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First Reviews of Professional Visual Studio Extensibility

8:55 AM PDT, May 5, 2008
It's less than two months of the release of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book.
Now after this while, I expect to see some reviews about it as two months is a good time to read the entire book and provide feedback.
In the past couple of weeks I received two reviews about the book by Alvin Aschraft and on Amazon.
Alvin was one of the guys who had been listed as a contact to receive a promotional copy. After receiving the book, he helped to promote it in some ways and I have to thank him here.
Today he wrote a review of the book after reading it. In the review he points to the lack of enough documentation for VSX on MSDN and other resources and says that this book has targeted mid-level to advanced .NET developers and recommends beginners to not read it (as I wrote in the Introduction section of the book).
It seems that he's satisfied with the content because he writes that all the main chapters of the book are written in enough detail with enough screen shots, class diagrams and code snippets to teach the reader what she's looking for. I'm thankful to read this review from Alvin and appreciate his help and support.
Beside this review, I also received the first review on Amazon from Pasquale Argenio with a five rank who has left some thoughts about the book and why he likes it.
 
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First Impressions on Professional Visual Studio Extensibility

10:14 AM PDT, March 31, 2008
Three weeks ago I announced the official availability of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book.
Now after these three weeks I've received some initial feedbacks and community reactions about the book that let me give some initial impressions about it.
In this short while, book has been made available on more online booksellers and I think that it's now available everywhere.
None of the readers have been able to finish the book (or at least I haven't hear about anyone yet) but some of those who have read first chapters told me that they are written very well.
One common question that I've received from some buddies was about the electronic format of the book. I contacted Katie Mohr at Wiley and she followed up with me about the Kindle and PDF formats. Wiley provides electronic formats and requests them from Amazon but normally it takes a while to be accepted and be ready.
On the other hand, there were some guys who asked me for promotional copies or I contacted them myself. I've asked Wiley about the status of these copies and will inform them as soon as I get a response.
One of the several signs of the book's success may be its sales rank that I got an excellent rank for the book so far. For a special topic like Visual Studio Extensibility this looks like a good rank.
I'm eager to hear about feedbacks especially negative feedbacks. Since this book is a small part of the community progress for Visual Studio Extensibility in 2008, I'm going to wrap up all these feedbacks and share them with a group of VSX experts that are joined together under the VSX Insiders umbrella. So there is no doubt that all feedbacks can help the community somehow.
 
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Professional Visual Studio Extensibility - Finally Released

12:16 PM PDT, March 10, 2008, updated at 12:18 PM PDT, March 10, 2008
Finally my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book officially released today. It's already available for purchase on Wiley and Wrox and should be available on Amazon in a very short while. We're going to send our request for Amazon Kindle format to Amazon and hope that Amazon accepts our request and provides this format for the book as well.
I've covered more details about book relea