Visual Studio add-in for C#-development

Question

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. -_-

Answer 1

You can get a lot of info from the MS Visual Studio Extensibility site. This post from the Visual Studio blog may also get you started with dealing with the in memory code file.