Pablo Galiano's Blog

I have just uploaded a new Visual Studio extension to the Visual Studio Gallery

It is basically a new project template to create MEF based Visual Studio extensions (VSIX)

The differences between this project template and the one that comes with the VS SDK are:

• Assembly references
• System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting.dll
• A MyExport class in created

public interface IMyExport
{
}

[Export(typeof(IMyExport))]
public class MyExport : IMyExport
{
}

• The AssemblyInfo contains the VsCatalogName attribute

//TODO: Specify the catalog name for the exported objects
[assembly: VsCatalogName("Foo")]

• The extension manifest contains the MEFComponent content type

<Content>
  <MEFComponent>MEFVSIXProject3</MEFComponent>
</Content>

After you install it, it is displayed under the Visual C# category

You can also discover it by browsing the Online Templates tab in the new Add New Project dialog:

Enjoy,

Pablo