Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET ebook

by Les Smith

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NET is the most extensible development environment Microsoft has released to date. Organizations create add-ins for many purposes: to speed common tasks, to ease code reuse within an organization, and to enforce rules and consistency among developers. Smith also addresses the migration of add-ins from VB . to V. ET for those developers who have previous experience in writing add-ins. One of the great challenges that add-in developers will encounter is finding the right classes from among the 3,400 classes in the. Bibliographic Information.

Who Should Read This Book? How This Book Is Organized. Manually Make the Registry Entries for the Add-in Manager Dialog Box for Add-ins Not Created by the Wizard on My Computer

Who Should Read This Book? How This Book Is Organized. What This Book Does Not Do. What This Book Does. About the Code in This Book. Manually Make the Registry Entries for the Add-in Manager Dialog Box for Add-ins Not Created by the Wizard on My Computer. Create a Setup Project for an Add-in Not Created on My Computer. Debug an Add-in When I Only Have the Add-in Project. Recognize When a Form Has Been Added to the Project. I'd haven given it another star if it were named, "Writing Add-ins for Visual Studio. Organizations create add-ins for many purposes: to speed common tasks. NET is designed to get add-in developers up to speed in developing ad-ins in Visual Studio.

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Start by marking Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio. Net as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. As simple as that sounds, it is still no small task. I'm sure I could write pages about Les Smith's decades of programming expe- rience and knowledge. But this book isn't about programming practices. It's about writing add-ins and what you need to know to get your code connected and running in the ID. .

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Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio. NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform. By Mark Collins-Cope. Almost every Visual Studio programmer has wanted to write an add-in customized to his or her needs. Les Smith's book, Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio. NET, shows you how. Smith discusses both Visual Basic. NET and C add-ins, though the examples are in V. ET

This book is designed to teach add-in development using Visual Studio.NET to the novice as well as the experienced developer, with real code examples to demonstrate how.

Mikale

Wow! People still code in Visual Basic? Well, I hadn't realized (not very clear from most of the description) that this book was only in Visual Basic. I assumed, as worst case, that it would be in C#, as C# is a great MS exclusive tools language, however I had no idea it would be as high level as VB.

I began the world as a BASICA developer, eventually migrated to VB, and finally rested in the world of C++. C++ can be overkill when it comes to tool development, and in this case, VS addons, however, VB is simply too simple.

Perhaps I'm incorrect, VB might not be bad for such a task, however, all I wanted was a set of examples or interfaces that -did something _like_ what I want to do-, then I could pervert this knowledge to my ends. Being in VB, however, I can't even guarantee the same syntax.

Well, I give this book 2 stars, 1 for being available, and extra 1 because I'm not even going to bother using it, so it might have some redeeming qualities. I'd haven given it another star if it were named, "Writing Add-ins for Visual Studio .NET in Visual Basic by Les Smith", but, then again, I wouldn't have bought it.

Shadowredeemer

I keep stressing the fact that I have not seen a single intelligently written Visual Basic (.NET) source code. This book is not an exception. The code segments are plain sloppy and don't cover enough features of Visual Studio .NET 2003

Better luck with C# in the next edition.

Alsardin

Anyone who's worked with Visual Studio and VS .NET know there are some profound differences. Even with these enhancements, there is a lot that could be automated that would help just about any developer. Mr. Smith's book on Add-Ins helps developer accomplish just that. In order to create and implement useful add-ins, a developer would probably have to be familiar with programming and VS enough to know what is repetitive and what could benefit from automation. Hence, I wouldn't recommend this to someone who's new to programming and VS.
However, for those out there that find themselves repeating the same tasks over and over or are looking for functionality that Microsoft didn't include, this book will be invaluable. Furthermore, Mr. Smith's obvious experience and familiarity with VS will no doubt give you some really great ideas about add-ins you may want to create.
Excellent!

Fek

After reading this book, I not only find it helpful, but I also took note of several things. First, the release date of the book was just three months after the first release of .NET. Assuming that it takes over six months to write and publish a book, the author had to have started writing the book using a Beta release of Visual Studio .NET and probably finished it using the Release Candidate if it was available to him. Anyone who knows Microsoft Beta releases, knows that the last thing to get any attention is the Help files. They are always spotty and many times non-existant, at least until the release version.

Secondly, the author tells you up front that he is a VB developer and will not use much C# code.

I did find that there are some sections with too much code, and sometimes not enough explanation. However, the code does work; I have tried it, and I will take working code over innocous verbage any day. I often times have purchased a book that costs more that this one, just to get help with one problem and this book helped me in several areas.

Obviously, any buyer has a right to their own opinion, but sometimes, self-proclaimed gurus ought to take into consideration the time at which a book was written, and the subject material, upon which research for the book was done, was available at the time the book was started and completed prior to release to the publisher. Apress is noted for having good books and they don't let bad ones out.

I hope Mr. Smith will write a second edition and cover some of the subjects that he and others have still not yet touched on.

Tiv

I found that it is largely full of code listings, and short on background information. The coding style seems very much stuck in the VB6 world, and the author needs to acquaint himself with the guidelines for coding in .NET (e.g., naming, etc.).
At the time I bought this book, it was the only book around for VS.NET add-in development. I did get some value out of it, but now that I've done more development of add-ins and VSIP packages for Visual Studio .NET, I find this book very thin on information, and full of sloppy errors.
It might be useful if you are writing VS.NET add ins (but take it with a grain of salt). If you want to develop add-ins, and learn about Visual Studio .NET in general, "Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET" is a far better choice.

mr.Mine

I am flabbergasted that this book has been published in the state it is in. I can only assume no one reviewed it.

It is teeming with badly written and largely irrelevant code samples. For the most part, only four or five lines of a four or five *page* code sample are relevant to the topic at hand. And they are poorly - if at all - explained. The obvious is stated and the subject quickly changed.

The writing style is boring and uninformative. I have learnt close to nothing from this book and am outraged by the blatant mistakes with regards to .NET. Take, for example, page 313 (the grammatical mistake is as printed):

Microsoft has intimated that there will be other languages from Microsoft as well as other languages from . . . This is possible because of the set of unified classes provided by .NET Framework.

Um, no. It is actually possible thanks to the CLR. The author obviously has very little understanding of .NET. It's as if he wrote the book while trying to teach himself the fundamentals.

As a final note, do not expect C# code. The book title does not allude to the fact that most code is written (badly) in VB.