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this investigation include the debugger’s breakpoints and the Immediate window. Set a breakpoint in one of the Add-In methods and inspect the value of an object. To find out what is inside that object, open the Immediate window, type the object name, and press DOT to let Intellisense help you find properties you’re interested in.

On occasion, you’ll have properties that are collections. In that case, you can write code in the Add-In method you want the access the collection through, add a foreach (For Each in VB) loop, and print values of the collection to the Output window.

Summary

Each section of this chapter walked you through the steps necessary to write an Add-In. You learned how Add-In projects are started, similar to other projects, except that the wizard for creating Add-Ins is more extensive. Once you understood what project items were created, you learned about the contents of the Add-In itself, the interfaces that are implemented, and the skeleton code generated by the Add-In Project Wizard. This chapter showed you how to add code to the Add-In to make it perform a search of all VS commands and their related shortcut keys. This process demonstrated how you could access anything throughout VS via code. You learned how to deploy and manage an Add-In and then finished off with tips on moving forward to create your own Add-Ins.

This is the last chapter of this book, but only the beginning for your software development experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. I sincerely appreciate your reading my book and hope that it propels you to greater skill and success.

—Joe Mayo