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For chapter three, I will be introducing a framework from Microsoft called the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF ( http://mef.codeplex.com , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460648(VS.100).aspx ). If you are not familiar with MEF, you will...

Here is Microsoft’s workaround for the problem hang-ups during in-process debugging: “The idea is that we want to wait for the type –registering threads to finish before we call addin.FinishInitialization. What I did is to record the...

Q : When working with a COM host, such as the ShapeAppMFC sample included in the SDK, ProxyGen creates descriptor and proxy files which do not expose events due to the inheritance structure. Three types are generated for a class: the classType, IClassType...

Q : After I installed VSTA and some language packs I changed the language by modifying “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSTAHost\<hostid>\8.0\General\UILanguage.” However, when I ran VSTA and it configured the environment for first...

Q : I was wondering how to integrate custom help files into VSTA. So far, pressing F1 shows some general help about VSTA, but nothing that will help my customers to write macros. A : VSTA and Visual Studio use Microsoft Help 2. HelpStudio Lite is the...

My name is Bill, and I am an integration newbie. The purpose of my blog is to chronicle my experiences as I work to integrate Visual Studio Tools for Applications into my own program. Hopefully, this will help other programmers get started with VSTA integration...

When an event will be fired many times it is a good practice to do periodic garbage collection. When a VSTA add-in hooks into an event which is fired many times this becomes even more important because the memory usage for the host process will grow very...

Q : I can't use proxygen with a very simple C++/CLI program. After execute proxygen I always get the error: ProxyGen.exe Error: 10030 : The following file is not a valid managed assembly: (path to the executable) What is the problem? A : Prox ygen...