This article deals with creation, utilization and handling of Visual Studio commands in its extension modules through automation object model APIs and IDE services. The relations between IDE...
This article contains an overview of Visual Studio Automation Object Model. Model's overall structure and the means of obtaining access to its interfaces through DTE/DTE2 top level objects...
There are different metrics used in programming, including metrics for code equality estimation. One of these is the error density metric. One might think it enables one to find out exactly...
This post is intended for those who write articles and books on the subject of creating high-quality C/C++ code or security issues. While studying various projects with the help of the...
The best way to prove a static code analyzer is to find errors in open source projects and share them with the world. If you have ever heard of PVS-Studio, it was most likely from our...
This article contains the overview of several different methods for extending Visual Studio IDE. The creation, debugging, registration and end-user deployment of Visual Studio extension packages...
Creating extension packages (plug-ins) for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE appears as quite an easy task at the first sight. There exist an excellent MSDN documentation, as well as various...
One of the most common errors a programmer encounters when porting applications from a Win32 system to a Win64 one is the error related to the function OnTimer. The function OnTimer is used nearly...
Much is said about good and harm of comments in program code and a single opinion hasn't been worked out yet. However, we've decided to take a look at comments from a different viewpoint...
Static code analysis is one of the error detection methodologies. We are glad that this methodology is becoming more and more popular nowadays. Visual Studio which includes static analysis as one...
