Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing And Extending Your Development Environment

1. TL32 Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing And Extending Your Development Environment  Tim Wagner Visual Studio Platform Dev Manager Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda • Extending Visual Studio • Finding extensions on VS Gallery • Using the SDK to create packages • Creating branded, standalone apps • Visual Studio 10 Extensibility • Customizing the start page • Building “drop in” components with MEF • Extending the VS 10 editor • Managing extensions and downloads

3. Extend Your Development Experience • Find Tools • Online Gallery • CodePlex • New Visual Studio 10 download manager • Customize Tools • Templates • Code Snippets • Macros • Start Page • Debugger visualizations • Build Tools • Add-ins • Packages • Designers • DSLs • Editor components

4. Find Extensions In The Gallery

5. demo Power Commands

6. Custom Package: Tool Window • Create custom tool window • Content • XAML viewer • DTE actions • Use SDK sample browser to initiate • Visual Studio 10 changes • WPF shell

7. Aside: "DTE" • Development Tools Extensibility • High-level APIs for controlling Visual Studio: • Drive the UI • Create and manage projects • Open, edit, save files • Invoke commands • Used by macros and addins, but useful for packages as well • Our tool window will hook up a WPF button to a DTE command

8. demo XAML Tool Window

9. Visual Studio Shell

10. Deployment Options • Empty IDE • Free redistribution • Great foundation for standalone tools VS Extension

11. Steps To Build And Deploy

12. How Does it Work?

13. Join Us At The VS Extensibility Center

14. Resources • VSX Developer Centerhttp://msdn.com/vsx • VSX Forums on MSDNhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vsx/threads • VSX Team Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam • Visual Studio Galleryhttp://visualstudiogallery.com/

15. What's new?

16. Agenda • Extending Visual Studio • Finding extensions on VS Gallery • Using the SDK to create packages • Creating branded, standalone apps • Visual Studio 10 Extensibility Offerings • Customizing the start page • Building “drop in” components with MEF • Extending the VS 10 editor • Managing extensions and downloads

17. Customizing the New Start Page

18. Customizing The New Start Page

19. demo Custom Start Page (XAML)

20. Coming Up: Components! • New managed extensibility mechanism designed from the ground up • All managed – no COM artifacts • Component and contract based • Used for emerging Visual Studio architecture • Appears first in the editor • Characterized by ease of construction and deployment… • Self describing payloads, “xcopy” semantics • DILU (drop-in, light up) deployment • *Not* focused on hot deploy in first release

21. Component Model Part A I need "Foo" I need "Foo" I provide "Foo" Part B Part C

22. MEF Example: Host and Contract static void Main(string[] args) { var container = new CompositionContainer(); varconsoleWriter = new ConsoleWriter(); container.AddPart(consoleWriter); container.AddPart(new DateOutputFormatter()); container.Compose(); consoleWriter.Write("Hello MEF, my first MEF app"); Console.ReadLine(); } public interface IOutputFormatter { string Format(string message); }

23. MEF Example: Provide/Consume [Export(typeof(IOutputFormatter))] public class DateOutputFormatter : IOutputFormatter { public string Format(string message) {   return string.Format("{0}: {1}", DateTime.Now, message);   } } public class ConsoleWriter { [Import]   public IOutputFormatter Formatter { get; set; }   public void Write(string message) { Console.WriteLine(Formatter.Format(message));   } }

24. Catalogs Discover Parts Container Catalog Catalog

25. MEF In The Visual Studio Editor • The new editor is built entirely from MEF components • Extending or modifying the editor amounts to providing your own components • Many extensibility points designed to capture common paradigms…

26. Allows Us To Go From This…

27. To This!

28. Classification: Rich Text Formatting • Rich reading experience • Multiple fonts • Font styles and effects • Opacity • Higher performance • Fewer coloring requests to language services • Composable • 3rd party “mixins” easily supported • Per-line transforms

29. Adornments: Powerful Graphics • Any WPF visual • Drawn on one of several planes • Two tracking modes • Associate with text • Associate with screen • Animation and behavior

30. Margin And Scrollbar Control • Replace or customize existing margins and scrollbar • Define new margins • All four sides • Support for spatial mapping

31. Intellisense And Smart Tags • Any 3rd party (not just language services) can: • Contribute to Completion • Override the presentation of Parameter Help or Quick Info • Add menu items to Smart Tags

32. demo Editor Components –Highlight Word

33. Managing Your Extensions • What if you could discover and search for extensions within the IDE? • What if you could install, manage, and update extensions there as well? • What if we could make publishing IDE extensions (of all flavors) easy, fast, and fun?

34. Extension Manager • New “in situ” experience for extensions… • Discover (via VS Gallery) • Download/install/manage • Update • Simplified packaging and deployment • Same DILU semantics, but for both existing and new extensibility mechanisms • Xcopy deploy; no magic, no hidden state • Think unzip and a manifest in XML • VS SDK will deliver simplified authoring and “one step” publication story • Used by Visual Studio and 3rd parties

39. Tools -> Extension Manager

40. [Dis]Able, Uninstall, Update

41. Agenda • Extending Visual Studio • Finding extensions on VS Gallery • Using the SDK to create packages • Creating branded, standalone apps • Visual Studio 10 Extensibility • Customizing the start page • Building “drop in” components with MEF • Extending the VS 10 editor • Managing extensions and downloads • Your turn! • Download the 2008 SDK and try the 2010 CTP

42. Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing and Extending Your Development Environment Q&A

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