Lucian Wischik, who if you ever get the chance, make sure you catch him presenting, shares some tips and a tutorial on creating a Visual Studio Text Adornment. He takes you from start to finish and the result, your first Text Adornment...
Visual Studio Text Adornment VSIX using Roslyn
A VSIX is a way to install plugins into Visual Studio. The kind of plugin I’m interested in right now is a text adornment. This lets you superimpose things (text, pictures, interactive controls) right on top of a code editor window.
It took me a frustrating day figuring out how to get started. This post is to save everyone else the frustration.
Install the Visual Studio SDK ...
Install Roslyn SDK ...
Create a new VSIX project ...
Add references ...
Add code for the Text Adornment ...
Run it!
Press F5 to run it. It should launch a new “experimental” instance of VS, with your VSIX installed into it. When you open any text document you should see the new adornment in yellow:
Troubleshooting
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