Hi,
I've seen numerous examples people implementing the Windows Forms Designer in their application, I was wondering if it's possible to do something similar with the Code editor too I would like to offer my users the capability of writing their own plug-ins. It is ok if VS has to be installed on their PCs.
I've asked this question many times before, and just had a lot of deer in headlights faces stare back at me.
Cheers.
Paul
VS Code Editor
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aschapiro
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/vsipoverview/
It's the Visual Studio Industry Partner program, which gets you the SDK for extending or importing parts of VS2005.
Hope that helps some.
S
rammanju
Yeh, that's the path I've taken. I wrote the same question on the VSIP forum, and a Microsoft guy basically said to me "well, this isn't technically feasible to do with studio right now, so you can suggest it to the product feedback team". Which is the answer I 90% expected anyway. So what I've gone for is your approach, and I'm working to integrate my product very deeply into studio itself, rather than studio to my app (perhaps I was being greedy )
Anyway, thanks for the pointer to VSIP :-) It's great!
Paul
Axelino
Per one of our support engineers:
First the “designer” and “design host” is just for the controls when we're developing applications. They provide support for the controls behavior when in the developing enviornment. For example we can drag it to the designing windows form. They are not designed for plug-ins.< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
If the customer wants to design plug-ins support feature, he should design a interface and invoke the interface in his code. Then use config information to do later binding to the correct plug-in object and invoke the plug-in method he wants.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/rscreate/htm/rcr_creating_building_v1_0do7.asp
Please let us know if you need more clarification as I'm not sure that this completely answers your question.
-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)
ChrisTB
Yep, I've seen a few implementations of that (MSDN mag), and it's great! I think that you were talking more about the windows forms designer and being able to reuse that.
I'm interested in if the code editor (where you actually writer your code, intellisence, etc) can be pulled into another application like the windows forms designer can. I think the closest I can find to what I'm after is the implementation on CodeSmith.
Thanks a lot!