Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

If you're interested in extending and customizing the Visual Studio .NET IDE, this book is for you.

In this book you will learn how to put all the built-in power of .NET 2003 to work with this comprehensive and in-depth programming guide. It drills down into the .NET to help you get the most out of its features, editors, and project-management capabilities. In the tutorial section you'll see how to extend this rich, integrated development environment to maximize your productivity for any project, no matter where you are in the development cycle—or which language you use.

You'll also learn how to use macros and add-ins to simplify your work. Code examples in every chapter show you exactly what to do.The target readers for Inside Microsoft .NET 2003 is any developer who is interested in learning the ins and outs of .NET. This book will help you understand the solution and project paradigm used to organize the application projects that you'll work with using Visual Studio .NET. That said, if you're a student who is just learning a programming language, you might find the initial chapters of the book very helpful as you go about programming in this IDE...TABLE OF CONTENT:
1.The Evolution of Visual Studio .NET
2.Project Management in Visual Studio .NET
3.The Visual Studio .NET Editor
5.The Add-in Wizard and the Automation Object Model
6.Add-in Architecture
7.Commands
8.Managing Solutions and Projects Programmatically
9.Visual Studio .NET Wizards
10.Programming the User Interface
11.Text Editing Objects and Events
12.The Code Model
13.Designing Setup Projects
14.Visual Studio .NET Help
15.Advanced Projects in Visual Studio .NET
Appendix A.Code Model Reference