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I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++?
I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me.
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DevExpress has a free plug-in called DXCore which provides some nice abstractions upon which to then build other plug-ins...you might look into that.
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Do you really want to do it in unmanaged code? DevExpress has a nice free library to develop visual studio plugins but it's managed. This is what they use to develop Refactor and coderush
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/DXCore/
It seems the underlying API is kind of messy. As far as I know this is the easiest way.
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I've never tried, so I don't know about doing it in C++, but this website has loads of information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/default.aspx
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A good place to start would be this tutorial:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AddIns11292005015631AM/AddIns.aspx
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