Paul’s jabber

Recently I set out to play with the Visual Studio SDK in order to create a custom project type and custom msbuild task and I must say that it’s quite a learning curve. To further contribute to the agony I also had a bit of hard time finding any learning resources. So if your experience has been anything like mine and you’ve spent countless hours googling around then give the following sites a try:

• Download Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0
• Visual Studio (MSDN Documentation)
• “How Do I?” Videos for Visual Studio Extensibility
• Building a Visual Studio Custom Project Type (a very good intro)

Lastly, as I’m sure you’ll notice, there are a few samples supplied with the Visual Studio SDK.