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Asked: 2026-05-30T04:33:24+00:00

I want to use Visual Studio (maybe Isolated Shell) to create a custom IDE

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I want to use Visual Studio (maybe Isolated Shell) to create a custom IDE for programming a custom ARM-based device in C. The device has no OS and is being used like a microcontroller.

Atmel’s AVR Studio 5 uses the Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell and I would like to do something similar. I am currently using a gcc-based ARM compiler.

I’ve already been through MSDN’s documentation for extending Visual Studio, but I can’t find anything specific to this task. Can someone give me an idea of how to approach this? For example, is there some way for me to leverage the Visual C++ editor without having to use Babel to re-teach Visual Studio about C?

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  1. Editorial Team

    MSDN documentation is not enough if you want to create a new IDE in fact. My personal suggestion is that you learn from existing large samples, such as this Python IDE,

    http://pytools.codeplex.com/

    It is designed by Microsoft, so it provides much useful information that does not appear in MSDN.

    However, reusing Visual C++ editor means you cannot use only Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell (I think), as that may require some assemblies that only full Visual Studio has.

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