Chapter 11: Handling Automation Events

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Summary

In this chapter you reviewed the alternate methods for automating tasks and saw some possible guidelines for their respective uses. You learned how to add external tools to the IDE. You saw that you can code an add-in in any of the current Visual Studio .NET development languages, and you can also mix the usage of these languages within an add-in. Finally, you learned how to detect the presence of different languages in the IDE and react accordingly in your add-in.

In Chapter 11, you will see how to respond to the events that occur within the Visual Studio .NET IDE as the developer is adding files and components, saving files, and so forth. You will see that there are some neat things that can be done as the various events fire.

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