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February 15th, 2010

CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010

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Have you ever wanted to quickly share a code sample to Twitter or your blog without leaving Visual Studio? Steve Apiki walks through how to create an extension for Visual Studio 2010 that does just that.

Walkthrough: http://www.devx.com/VS_2010/Article/44073

His walkthrough touches on a number of extensibility options inside Visual Studio 2010 such as:

How to add a command to a context menu
How to create text adornments with the new VS 2010 Editor
How to create a Tool Window and add WPF content to it
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) basics
Using XML-RPC.NET to post to Twitter

Enjoy!

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