Al Pascual ASP.NET Blog

I had to create a Visual Studio AddIn, no as simple task as I thought in the beginning.

What do you need.

Visual Studio 2008 SDK The Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0 includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy extensions for Visual Studio 2008. You can also use the VS 2008 SDK 1.0 to create custom tools environments based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell.

How to find the commands in VS2008 to attached to.

This example is looking for Tables …

for (int p = 1; p < ((Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBars)_applicationObject.CommandBars).Count; p++)
{
    Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBar menuBarCommandBarTemp = ((Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBars)_applicationObject.CommandBars)[p];

    for (int i = 1; i < menuBarCommandBarTemp.Controls.Count; i++)
    {
        CommandBarControl con = menuBarCommandBarTemp.Controls[i];
        if (con.Caption.IndexOf("Table") > -1)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine(menuBarCommandBarTemp.Name);
            Debug.WriteLine(con.Caption);
        }
    }
}

Have fun,

Cheers

Al