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Suppose you had a code document represented by a FileCodeModel object. And suppose you were modifying the containing DOM. Sometimes,…

So you’re creating a VSIX package that does not have a menu items, tool windows or command? But still you…

Suppose you have XSLT style sheets that produce some code from XML files. Now suppose you want to integrate these…

We all love Visual Studio Macros, right? Pre- and Post-Build actions or MSBuild scripts would get very nasty if there…

Some strange behavior occurred today when I tried to encapsulate some functionality of a T4 template into a base class.…

If you have developed a Visual Studio Extension, you might want to output messages to Visual Studio’s Output window. Here’s…

So I needed to show a modal WPF window from inside a Visual Studio Extension. To do that, I needed…

A Visual Studio Extension or Add-In might need to know whether or not a project is a web application (in…

When you’re developing an extension for Visual Studio, you might want to add errors, warnings or messages to Visual Studio’s…

There might be situations where you might want to execute XDT of a web.config or app.config “manually” (i.e. apply the…