Carlos Quintero's blog

Another question that appear frequently in the forums is how to perform some action before or after a build, how to build programmatically or how to retrieve build configurations. My latest article is about that: HOWTO: Performing some action before or after a build from a Visual Studio macro or add-in http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ029.htm

Previously I talked here about the tools that I use when developing my MZ-Tools add-in. I would like to mention an awesome tool named Help and Manual 4 that I will use to create help files. I previously used the free HTML Help Workshop, that, if you have used it, you know that is far from perfect, to […]

This is a small oversight in the new file code model of VS 2005: BUG: EnvDTE80.CodeEvent lacks a Parameters property for VB.NET 2005 events declared without a delegate http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ028.htm

This is another article long overdue on my list of pending articles, which appears quite frequently on the forums. It explains how to open a window from a file (ProjectItem) in the desired view (code, designer, text): HOWTO: Manipulate a code or form designer file from a Visual Studio add-in http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ027.htm

Ever wanted to retrieve an EnvDTE.Project from a given project unique name? Today I have discovered that you don’t have to iterate the projects of a solution to find it: HOWTO: Get an EnvDTE.Project object from its project unique name http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ026.htm It happened that I was thinking about a Solution.GetProject method, but Microsoft gave it […]