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XNA Game Studio somehow extended the properties window in Visual Studio with two new combo boxes, “Importer” and “Processor”. These combo boxes contained the available importers and processors defined in code in the current solution, and when these fields were changed, the setting was saved to the corresponding item’s metadata in the project file.
I’m curious about how they achieved this? Any information would be appreciated.
There is a old but good article explaining the principles behind how it’s done. Basically it comes down to implementing the
IExtenderProviderinterface and determine which objects it should extend via theCanExtendMethod, using the CATID of the object to identify it. For the object to be extended you return an extender using theGetExtendermethod. Note that the extender must be marked asComVisible.The extender provider is registered either statically in the registry or dynamically using code. The documentation is very thin, but this page says that the extenders are able to add properties and also hide or alter existing properties.