visual-studio-extensions

Restrictions on installing extensions or add-ins in Visual Studio 2010 Express

Take a look at this article. In summary from above article: The Express SKUs only support installation of extensions that are classified as Templates (or Template Wizards) and Controls. The Express SKUs do not support tool extensions. Which is anything that doesn’t fall into one of the other categories (Template or Control). VSIX files are … Read more

Custom Intellisense Extension

So in Visual Studio 2010 and later, the extensibility APIs you want to at are under the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Languages.IntelliSense namespace. At a high level, you want to MEF export a ICompletionSourceProvider which will provide the items you need. There are two good blog posts here and here that demonstrate the basic technique. There are two problems … Read more