Editors

The Visual Studio provides support for creating an editor that can be hosted in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Additionally, Visual Studio provides a customizable editor called the core editor. If you use the core editor, you have access to the interfaces that implement a custom language service. Editors can be developed to work with all project systems or to work with only your own custom project system.

In This Section

• Editor Essentials
  Describes the core elements and concepts for understanding and using editors in your VSPackages.

• Kinds of Editors
  Lists the types of editors available to you in Visual Studio and details the features of each editor.

• Editor Design Decisions
  Discusses the importance of selecting the correct type of editor for extending the environment and provides design criteria for selecting the correct editor.

• How to: Create an Editor (C#)
  Describes how to create a standard editor using the Visual Studio Integration Package Wizard.

• How to: Create an Editor for a VSPackage
  Describes a more in-depth process for creating a standard editor for a VSPackage.

• In-Place Activation
  Explains how to implement your editor view as an ActiveX control or as an Active document data object if your view hosts ActiveX controls.

• Simplified Embedding
  Describes how to implement a simplified embedding editor.

• Editor Factories
  A conceptual overview of editor factories in Visual Studio SDK.

• How to: Provide Context for Editors or Designers
  Discusses how to provide context for an editor or a designer.

• Language Service Context for the Core Editor
  Discusses how to provide language service context for the Visual Studio core editor.

• Document Windows and Editors
  Discusses the purpose of document windows, defines the two types of editors that a document window can host, and discusses the two types of editor implementations that the IDE supports.

• Core Editor
  Describes the features of the core editor and provides details about how to customize the core editor.

• Associating Editors with Projects and File Types
  Describes how to create and register editor factories in the Visual Studio IDE by using tools available in Visual Studio SDK.

• Editor Features
  Explains how the Visual Studio SDK provides features to enable state-of-the-art editor implementations that take advantage of Visual Studio core editor functionality.

• Advanced Editor Scenarios
  Describes advanced features that the Visual Studio SDK offers to extend editors.

• Editor Walkthroughs
  Lists walkthroughs that illustrate how to customize editors

Related Sections

• Core Editor
  Lists the six components of the Visual Studio core editor that let you modify and query textual information.

• Developing a Language Service
  Provides links to features that provide customization capabilities to the Visual Studio core editor by adding support for a language service.

• User Interfaces
  Explains how to use Visual Studio services to create UI elements that match the rest of Visual Studio.