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Visual Studio Extension that alters the build process

After reading documentation I have concluded that developing an own "VSPackage" is the most powerful way of extending Visual Studio's behaviour.

Now I want to build an extension which modifies the build (compilation) behaviour of VS for C/C++ applications. Is there any getting-started guide or documentation on this?

Most available tutorials seem to focus on GUI aspects.

Solution

  • You want to modify the .vcxproj-file, it controls the build process for c++ in Visual Studio 2015.

    You can read more about the build process for c++ in VS2015 here: Building C++ Projects in Visual Studio

    If you're going to have several project that are going to use the same build process you should look into creating a project template instead of an extension. Take a look here to get started https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xkh1wxd8.aspx

    Good luck!