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Feb 25th, 2009

Writing MSVC Plugins

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well, after hours apon hours of serching for this, i've come up with nothing but a few sources for some plugins[from thecodeproject.com], which don't cover what I need: Basically writing to the currently active (source) file(at the position of the cursor/caret), like so(highly simplified)

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fprintf(pOpenDocument,"/*\n\tTime: %s\n\tDate: %s\n\tAuther: %s\n\tReason & Revision: %s\n*/",GetTime(),GetDate(),GetAuther(),GetReason());"
 
fprintf(pOpenDocument,"/*\n\tTime: %s\n\tDate: %s\n\tAuther: %s\n\tReason & Revision: %s\n*/",GetTime(),GetDate(),GetAuther(),GetReason());"

I know my vc6 pro has a wizard for this, but its mfc based, which I a) lothe & b) still have no clue how to use to do the above due to a lack of documentation

(or my lack of finding documentation).

So my questions are:
can anybody point me to some documentation?
is it possible to use WinAPI for this and not mfc?
any cryptic clues or help is much appreciated

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Feb 26th, 2009

Re: Writing MSVC Plugins

Maybe this comes helpful: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadF...AM/AddIns.aspx

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well after a wierd turn in msdn i found this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc138565.aspx
but i hate C#(nor am i very profficient in it)...
your link looks alot nicer jencas, but i'd like to do this in C/C++(yes i'm a picky *******

), if worst comes to worst i'll just whip out olly and IDA....

on a side note: ms seems to have gotten better as supporting plugins:
http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/

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Re: Writing MSVC Plugins

O.K., then take a look at http://www.mztools.com/ and http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/threads/

Last edited by jencas; Mar 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 am. Reason: added forum link

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Re: Writing MSVC Plugins

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by Necrolis ...

any cryptic clues or help is much appreciated

One approach would be to

generate a default MFC-based add-in

study it so that you understand how things work

strip off all MFC/AFX -based stuff, converting the add-in to a standard DLL (i.e. with a DllMain(...) instead of CWinApp, etc (leave the COM-code in-place though))

A (cryptic) clue: the interfaces you'll need, are; IApplication, ITextDocument, ITextWindow and ITextSelection.

You'll get some understanding about how things are organized by looking into the #include <ObjModel\*auto.h> files.

I'm not aware about any decent documentation on the msvc 6.0 add-ins/object model. However, if you are happy with a simple add-in, providing a command or two via a command bar, then you'll probably not be missing the documentation too much.

You might also get some general insight by taking a look at
How to automate tasks by using COM objects in Visual C++

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well, it seems that i should have checked here sooner before i found this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...97(VS.60).aspx

, time to dig into those links, thanks guys

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