Description

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Add-Ins are powerful extensions to the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Add-Ins can be written in Visual Basic, C#, or Visual C++, regardless of the development language. Smith's book is designed to get the experienced add-in developer up to speed very quickly in developing add-ins specifically in Visual Studio.NET.

About the Author

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Les Smith is an independent consultant specializing in the development of Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET applications. He is the president of HHI Software, Inc., and develops tools for developers using Visual Studio. He has been developing add-ins since the release of Visual Basic 4.0 and has been developing applications in Visual Basic for over 12 years. Prior to his PC development experience, which included the use of C and Clipper, he had 20 years of experience in the development of mainframe operating systems for a major mainframe manufacturer. Smith also managed several large development projects, both on mainframes and PCs.