Latest Add-Ins Articles

Auto Increment the Version Number after Each Build in a Visual Studio Project

By Kyung Rae Kim - Published 11/09/2007

This is a Version Number Build Tool for Automatic Version Numbering after each build in the Visual Studio Environment.

Common Add-Ins

By Michael Herstine - Published 10/11/2006

Discover a way to write add-ins such that a single binary can be hosted across multiple versions of DevStudio, Visual Studio, and Office. It uses C++ & ATL, but the principles should carry over to other languages and frameworks.

VSStub

By Per Nilsson - Published 05/03/2004

Provides a basic implementation of the Developer Studio Object Model.

Macros for C++, in C++

By Kate Gregory - Published 04/30/2004

Learn how to write macros for C++ in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Add-RGB Macro Creator

By Sergey Pimanov - Published 09/03/2003

This add-in shows a standard ColorSelect dialog box and forms text that looks like an RGB-macro string (RGB(100, 120, 130)). (The article, addin, and source code were updated.)

Align Leftmost Macros, Easy Column-Aligned Formatting for (Almost) Everything

By Vincent Scheib - Published 03/14/2003

A set of Microsoft Visual Studio (MSVC6) macros for formatting code. These macros allow things to be aligned to the same column. It's very useful for aligning equals signs, and so forth. (The article was updated and source code was added.)