How to edit Visual Studio Add-ins

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How to edit Visual Studio Add-ins shows you how to create and edit the C# Online.NET Visual Studio Add-ins— a collection of of add-ins or plug-ins for the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).

You must be registered to edit C# Online.NET pages. So, if you haven't already, login or create a new account.

Find where to add your new entry

1. Access the Visual Studio Add-ins page.

2. Access the page for the first letter of the name of your add-in. For example, our sample add-in begins with the letter "C". So, access Visual Studio Add-ins - C.

Create a new link entry

3. Create a link entry for your new add-in.

3.a Click the edit tab on the "C" page.

3.b Insert the link entry for your add-in at the correct spot in the edit box on the "C" page. The general form of a link entry is:

[[Visual Studio Add-ins - YourAddIn|YourAddIn]]

where YourAddIn is the name of your Visual Studio add-in.

In our example, it looks like this:

[[Visual Studio Add-ins - CodeSMART G2 for Visual Studio|CodeSMART G2 for Visual Studio]]

3.c Click the Save page button. Now, the link to your new page will show up in red like this:

• CodeSMART G2 for Visual Studio

Create a new page for your link entry

4. Click on your new red link (like the one in 3.c above) to create a new page where you can describe your add-in.

5. Copy the VS Add-in Entry template into the edit box of your new page:

{{VS Add-in Entry 2|
| addin=
| desc=
| terms=
| source=
| url=
| ide=
|}}

6. Fill in the template as follows:

Template Field	Field Value
addin	The name of your Visual Studio add-in.
desc	A brief, factual description of the add-in. Please, no superlatives and no sales pitch.
terms	Terms of acquisition might include: Free, Shareware, Evaluation, Commercial, etc.
source	The name of the source offering the add-in.
url	The URL of the organization offering the add-in. Preferably, the download link.
ide	The name of the most recent version of Visual Sutdio with which the add-in works.

6. Add one or more appropriate categories to the bottom of the page:

[[Category:Developer Studio Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

[[Category:Visual Cplusplus Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

[[Category:Visual Studio 6.0/7.0 Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

[[Category:Visual Studio 2002/2003 Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

[[Category:Visual Studio 2005 Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

[[Category:Visual Studio Commercial Add-ins|YourAddIn]]

7. Click the Show preview button and correct any mistakes.

8. Click the Save page button. Now, you can see your finished entry which will look something like our example.

Congratulations! You are done.