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I’m thinking of developing a tool that runs under Visual Studio 2010 and am struggling to find sample applications, source codes, and especially handouts that help in this journey.
I wonder if anyone would have any recommendation of material, or website.
Thanks
Yes, please look into VSPackages, by far the easiest and best way to extend upon VisualStudio 2010.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb286983(VS.100).aspx
It’s actually incredibly easy: Just open the New Project dialogue in Visual Studio and select Visual C#->Extensibility-> Visual Studio Package.
Then look into APIs like the DTE (Design Time Extensibility).
Have fun 🙂
Edit:
Further learning can be found in Open Source projects which I mentioned in the comments:
AllMargins: An extension that replaces the scroll bar.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OverviewMargin/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3957
And MetalScroll which does the same and is for VS2008 as an Add-In:
http://code.google.com/p/metalscroll/
The concepts of using the DTE are the same everywhere.