Summary

With the new macro and add-in capabilities present in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, developers now have the ultimate power to make the environment do exactly what they need to do to help solve their problems faster. In this chapter I wanted to show some of the gyrations necessary to build real-worldlevel macros and add-ins. Although there are still some quirks in the IDE, the overall picture more than makes up for it. I hope the holes I stumbled into and discussed will save you some time in developing your extensions to the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Developers have been asking for the full power of Visual Studio 2005 for a long time. We now have it, and I encourage you to implement the tools you've always dreamed about. The rest of us could use them!