Consider, for a moment, a socket wrench.
By attaching different sockets to it, you can use it for different tasks. Add-ins are to the Microsoft Visual Basic development environment what sockets are to a socket wrench; they provide it additional and interchangeable functionality. Unlike a socket wrench, though, you can attach several add-ins to Visual Basic at the same time, among other things.
In the following topics, you'll discover exactly what add-ins are, what they can do to help you program in Visual Basic, and how you can create and use them.
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What is Extensibility? Explains the concept of extensibility, how extensibility is implemented in Visual Basic, and what it means to you as a Visual Basic programmer. |
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What is an Add-In? Describes what an add-in is in Visual Basic and the assorted add-in variants. |
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Creating a Basic Add-In Leads you step-by-step though the process of creating a simple, basic working add-in. Afterward, there is an explanation of what was done and why. |