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Hi All,

I've been doing lots of work on visual studio extensions recently:

Extending Visual Studio Part 1 - Creating Code Snippets[^]
Extending Visual Studio Part 2 - Creating Addins[^]
Extending Visual Studio Part 3 - Item Templates[^]

But I need some help on the next section - what I want to do is have an XML file in my project, but when the user double clicks on it have it edited by a customer designer. The designer will be something a bit like the Entity Framework model designer - so file will be XML but I need to create a totally custom designer.

Does anyone know whether this is in theory possible? And if so what this kind of thing is called so I can find it on MSDN?

Thanks in advance!

Dave

Posted 17-Jun-12 22:12pm

Dave Kerr

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Dave Kerr · Answer 1 · 2012-06-18T00:57:00

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For anyone who looks over this question, I have found a sample that describes exactly what I want to do:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xmlwpfdesigner[^]

Enjoy!

Posted 18-Jun-12 0:57am

Dave Kerr