Adding Wizards to the Environment

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A Wizard is an ActiveX DLL or Exe that leads a user through a task, often an especially complex or tricky one. Although they can be constructed any way you like, Microsoft implements its wizards in a specific manner.

To add wizards to the Visual Studio environment, there are three main steps you perform:

• You must create a .vsz file for the wizard and place it in the appropriate directory. For Visual J++, place your file in any subdirectory of \program files\microsoft visual studio\vj98\vbprojectitems\. For Visual Interdev, place your .vsz files in \program files\microsoft visual studio\vj98\templates\.
  
  
• You can optionally create or modify an existing .vsdir file to include information about the wizard. Vsdir files provide additional information on how an item should be displayed in the Add Item or New Project dialog box. A directory containing project items can have multiple .vsdir files. The system processes all .vsdir files when it determines how to display items in the dialogs.

Note   If you do not include information about your wizard in a .vsdir file, the wizard will still appear in the dialog box, but it will be placed at the bottom of the available screen space.

• You must implement the IDT_Wizard interface and its Execute method in your code.