Instant Feature Builder

Instant Feature Builder is a personal project I built to see if I could make a drag/drop experience for Visual Studio that built simple (non-modeling/non-menu-exposing) Feature Extensions that would run on VS Pro (and above) and target VS Pro (and above).

A Feature Extension packages project and/or item templates, a collection of related documents and/or web links, and optionally hyperlinks inside the documents which invoke simple Visual Studio Extensibility.

 

Notes:

• The Instant Feature Builder requires Visual Studio Professional (or above).
•  The Instant Feature Builder does not contain the ability to create menu items, dynamically control the process workflow state, re-use VS extension logic using Commands and ValueProviders nor provide capabilities to interact with modeling tools such as UML and DSL; for that you need to use the full Feature Builder Power Tool.
• For support issues related to the full Feature Builder and/or the Feature Extension Runtime, please visitthe Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools Forum.

Please see http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/FeatureBuilder for video walkthroughs for both the Instant Feature Builder and the Feature Builder Power Tool.

Version 1.1 fixes a bug related to item templates and adds documentation for using content:// links in .MHT documents.