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Developing Visual Studio .NET Macros and Add-Ins Review by Jack D. Herrington

Step by step VS.NET extensions

This is a solid step-by-step walkthrough of creating macros and extensions for VS.NET primarily in VB.NET, but with some coverage of C# and C++. The style is friendly and easy to read.

There are a few oversized screenshots, and some of the code runs a little long without annotation. In addition the reference value could have been enhanced. The reference that is there is minimal and I'm not sure how useful it would be. There is some coverage of building add-ons for Office, which is too short to be useful and could have been dropped.

Despite it's faults the book is still a good end-to-end walkthrough of developing and deploying add-ins.