Visual Studio Extensibility Development Extending Visual Studio Ide For Productivity, Quality, Tooling, And Analysis

Chapter Goal: The objective of this chapter is to introduce the basic concepts to the reader that would be required through-out this book, so that he gets comfortable in this learning journey.

No of pages :50-60

Sub -Topics

1.    What is a compiler?

2.    What is an SDK (Software Development Kit)?

3.    Recap of Tree Data structure

2.    Abstract Syntax trees

4.    MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) Basics.

5.    Visual Studio & its history

6.    XML & JSON

7.    Serialization & Deserialization.

9.    MSBuild basics

Chapter Goal: With the fundamentals strongly in place, we are now good to get started with Visual Studio (VS) Extensibility model. We will do our setup in this chapter. This chapter would introduce the VS Extensibility, Roslyn to the reader. The reader would also learn to write and debug a VS extension.

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics           

1.    Prerequisites and installation of VS

2.    Anatomy of a VSIX

3.    How Visual Studio discovers and loads extensions.

4.    VSPackage

5.    Async Loading

6.    Writing your first simple templatized Visual Studio Extension.

7.    Roslyn - .NET Compiler platform fundamentals

Chapter Goal: This chapter would introduce the extensibility model and how various extensions can be plugged in VS as menus, commands, tool window, code window, solution explorer etc

No of pages: 40-50

Sub - Topics:          

1.    The Visual Studio Extensibility model

3.    Menus & commands,

5.    Solution explorer item extension

Chapter Goal: This chapter dives into developing useful real-world VS Extensions and shows how they can be made configurable by customizing UI and options page. We would also learn how to write to output window and manipulate documents and projects in this chapter.

No of pages: 40-50

Sub - Topics:

1.    VS Extension to search on MSDN/Bing/Google.

3.    VS Extension to generate test data.

4.    Customizing extension by developing Tools option page.

5.    Customizing UI of extension.

Chapter Goal: This chapter is the continuation of last chapter and continues the development of useful real-world VS extensions but this time using the .NET Compiler platform Roslyn.

No of pages: 40-50

Sub - Topics:

1.    Rewrite VS Extension to generate HTTP Client proxy class for HTTP Web API using Roslyn.

2.    Developing a custom code analysis Visual Studio Extension.

3.    Developing a light bulb style code refactoring.

4.    Developing Roslyn based extension to generate unit tests using T4 template.

Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces the reader with famous Visual Studio Isolated and integrated Shell to develop applications that looks like Visual Studio and also develops handy productivity boosters like custom code snippets, debugger visualizers, modifying intellisense, debugging experience for developers

No of pages: 40-50

Sub - Topics:

1.    VS Isolated an