Re: DOTNET-PRODUCTS Digest - 17 Nov 2002 to 18 Nov 2002 (#2002-53)

>One thing that struck me about this product and others is that it really
>wants to be hosted by Visual Studio.NET.  The Addin/Automation model is
>a start but to do a nice job with this kind of tool I'm guessing you'd
>need VSIP.
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>Anybody know if/when the Microsoft VSIP program will be opened up to the
>general public?  $10K/year is so prohibitive - I'm not sure why they
>went this route to begin with one of my favorite things about .NET is
>VS.NET.  It could be a great dev platform if it was more accessible.
>Though from what I hear from Sam the APIs are no walk in the park.


I agree that the APIs are not a walk in the park, but from what I can see,
its not that difficult to use the AddIn model with VS.NET.  You might want
to try my ActiveX/COM Inspector (www.nogoop.com) with VS.NET to dynamically
inspector the COM API exported by VS.NET.  This was one of the main reasons
I developed these inspectors.  That combined with the documentation seems
to be sufficient.  At least it has worked for me.  I don't see the need for
VSIP.

Francis