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Asked: 2026-05-15T16:45:45+00:00

I want to write my first Visual Studio 2010 add-in. My aim is to

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I want to write my first Visual Studio 2010 add-in. My aim is to create an add-in that helps to automatically generate code for things like:

  • implement superclass constructors
  • create delegation methods for composed object
  • etc.

Of course, in order to know what to generate, my add-in must have a knowledge of the code-file the user is going to insert generated code into. (classes, base-classes …)

My first thought was to use a C#-parser. Is this the right way to go? Isn’t there any .NET-Framework part, COM-Object or whatever “built-in”?

Thank you in advance.

P.S: Is noticed that CSharpCodeProvider‘s class Parse() method has not been implemented by Microsoft yet. -_-

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could start by looking at EnvDTE, which will help you browse through project files and code trees already parsed and analyzed by Visual Studio, as well as modifying them. EnvDTE is pretty basic and error-prone (for the few times I used it). Finding good in-depth tutorials is also difficult.

    If you’re trying to implement such features yourself, good luck, it’s definitely doable but the learning curve might be quite steep. Otherwise, you could have a look at ReSharper which already implements the features you’re trying to code (and much more). Plus it also has a very well designed API compared to EnvDTE (although not very well documented), allowing to use its internal C# parser / analyzer.

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