Professional Visual Studio Extensibility



Price: $32.99


Professional Visual Studio Extensibility (Wrox) - March 2008Publisher: Wrox - March 10, 2008

ISBN-10: 0470230843, ISBN-13: 9780470230848

Author: Keyvan Nayyeri


520 pages


Professional Visual Studio Extensibility - book reviews: 9



Book Description
Whether you want to integrate optimized builds, enhanced programming tools, or other rapid application development features, this unique resource shows you how to develop customized extensions. After a quick introduction of basic concepts, this book delves into the automation model and add-in development with the help of a case study, numerous examples, and sample code. Youll discover how to take advantage of the Add-in Wizard, manipulate solutions and projects, work with text in documents and programming code, create Tool Options Pages, and more.


Most helpful customer reviews

Book rating: 1Not worth the money

Rather than buy this book, please read MSDN articles. I didn't get anything out of it.

Girish P. Nair
18 April, 2009

Book rating: 2Starting Point at Best

As many of the other reviewers stated, this book covers a broad range of topics at a very shallow level. It should best be viewed as a roadmap to the many, many api's provided by the Visual Studio environment. The examples are trivial.

The authors prose rambles, he repeats every paragraph by rewording it in the next paragraph. It reads like an undergraduate attempting to fill in a 10 page paper with 5 pages of material. Which is surprising since this is not a large book and a lot of it is code listings.

IMO, this book is best used as a starting point to Visual Studio plugin development. I recommend researching online before investing in this book.

A Student
19 March, 2009

Book rating: 1A Repeat of MSDN Material

Just go to MSDN and read about this or get books like "DomainSpecificDevelopment". YOu won't get anything out of this one other than a few screen shots.

07 December, 2008

Book rating: 2As boring as he looks

I agree with Demetrius. The book lacks substance and the style is dry, dry dry. I know this stuff isn't sexy, but this author seems to go out of his way to put the reader to sleep. A pity. All the other books in this series I've read (quite a few) are much, much better.

Nelson Drueding
13 November, 2008

Book rating: 2Not much here

I'm not sure what the basic idea for the book was; to provide a summary of some (not anywhere near all) the features of the Visual Studio SDK or to serve as an introduction to using the SDK?

In any case, the book is mostly filler. The few examples are always trivial ones like hooking up a button or printing a message somewhere. I think I learned more about the capabilities of the SDK from reading the (argh!) actual SDK doc intros than from reading this entire book.

If you just want to write macros or add-ins for Visual Studio then there are other better books, online examples, etc. If you want to do something more advanced like create a VSPackage, language service, etc. then this is not the book.

Demetrius Tsitrelis
20 August, 2008