Have you ever attempted to write an extensible application? You know the kind. The applications where your boss wants to be able to add stuff to it without rewriting the entire application and with minimum costs. Or the type of application you want to release out to the community and provide a way...

This is a quick run down on a simple jQuery plugin that will place an image over an element.

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

The MEF provides developers with a framework to easily add extensibility to their applications and with minimal impact on existing code. The application developer can define extension points according to the functionality required of an extension, while the extension developer uses those points to i...

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! Want more traffic? Use this in combination with his dotNetKicks plugin, and watch your numbers climb!

John Papa created a plugin for WIndows Live Writer that will customize a DotNetKicks link in a blog post.

OK so I finally found some time to start playing around with SL2 B1 in earnest this last weekend. The results? A Silverlight Calculator. I don’t know why but a calculator has always been my HelloWorld, every new programming language or UI stack I learn always starts with a calculator. This thing h...

An extension for BlogEngine.net that adds a "copy to clipboard" link to all code posted via Windows Live Writer's Code Snippet plugin.

Blog post illustrates how to write simple plugin for Windows Live Writer. Writing content source plugin for Live Writer takes just a couple of minutes.

This article walks you through the steps to create application plug-ins using Reflection in VB.NET

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

.Net Documentor is a Visual Studio 2005 Extension that adds productivity features to the IDE's source code documentation fecilities, e.g.: - recursive documentation of all elements in a project (with optional insertion of task shortcuts) - recursive documentation of a type and its members - autom...

Another version of GhostDoc, a VS-Plugin making the sourcecode documentation as easy as ctrl+shift+D, has been released on Jun 24 2007 by Roland Weigelt. He added VB.Net support and better handling of event documentation.

Anybody that has built an application that supports AddIns (aka add-in, plug-in, etc) knows that there are many design decisions to make and quite a few subtleties in implementing those decisions in particular when it comes to discovering addins, version resiliency, isolation from the host etc. In ...