Craig Skibo's WebLogSorry I can't answer the phone right now, I am outside feeding yogurt to the clowns.Visual Studio Shell architecture Part 1- June 6, 2007 Before getting into how this new Visual Studio Shell Isolated (lets call it VSSI for short) thing works, I thought I would go into some background of how Visual Studio works, so you can better understand how your program will work. When you click on the icon in the start menu to start Visual Studio, you run a program called devenv.exe. Devenv is a short version of development environment or developer environment depending who you talk to. This exe (we call it the stub) will then load a DLL...http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2007/06/06/visual-studio-shell-architecture-part-... Indroducing Visual Studio Shell- June 5, 2007 I have not been making too many posts here, mostly because I have had my head down working on some new, secret tools for the past few months. Now I can talk about them because today at TechEd we announced what that new tool is, Visual Studio Shell Isolated. That is one of those fancy, descriptive names that Microsoft marketing gives to something that is quite simple, but at the same time powerful. Over the years many people have been creating packages and Add-ins for Visual Studio, but if...http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2007/06/05/indroducing-visual-studio-shell.aspx |