![]() I hope this will be useful to you if you are planning to add a color picker functionality in your WPF application. I am using this article to demonstrate the implementation of Color Canvas, Color Picker from the Extended WPF Toolkit. Introduction Some days back I got a chance to work on WPF with Extended WPF Toolkit and I really got impressed with the controls they have offered. ![]() If you're interested in the Extended WPF Toolkit, check out Shemeer NS's other article, WPF: Using Color Canvas and Color Picker from Extended WPF Toolkit I have put my time and efforts on all of my articles, please don't forget to mark your votes, suggestions and feedback to improve the quality of this and upcoming articles. Summary In this article I have tried to explain how to create a Visual Studio Package with the help of Intgrated Color Picker for Visual Studio. ![]() Once we add the reference to "", We need to add a WPF window that will be used to host the color picker functionalities. Read article ' Using Color Canvas and Color Picker from Extended WPF Toolkit' for detailed steps of adding reference. I'm going to add reference of "" from "Extended WPF Toolkit Binaries". As we are utilizing components from Extended WPF Toolkit we need to refer the toolkit binaries in our application. Now lets talk about the actual color picker implementation. I'm using Visual Studio 2013, if you are using a different version then make sure you have the right version of Visual Studio SDK installed. It is compatible with the Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate editions. To start developing Visual Studio extensions, you first need to download and install the Visual Studio SDK at the Visual Studio 2013 SDK download website. I will be using Visual Studio Package (VSPackage) for creating this AddIn, You might be interested in Web Search that is created using Visual Studio Add-In project template. You should upgrade your add-ins to VSPackage extensions. Visual Studio add-ins are deprecated in Visual Studio 2013. ![]() Three common ones are: automation, VSPackage extensions, and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) extensions. There are many ways to extend Visual Studio. Before you start on this, it would better to have a look on the article ' Using Color Canvas and Color Picker from Extended WPF Toolkit', so that you will get to know the implementation of Color Canvas, Color Picker from Extended WPF Toolkit. Using the code I have used some components from Extended WPF Toolkit for this Color Picker tool. I will be sharing the initial code here so that you also can play with it. So I thought to write my own color picker plugin for visual studio. Background Sometimes I used to work in UI designing like changing color or alignment using CSS and or HTML markups and I found difficulty in getting a color picker directly from the IDE for my purpose. If you like to get latest version of Color Picker AddIn then click here. In this article I'm going to give you a walkthrough on the Color Picker AddIn (or Plugin). Integrated Color Picker for Visual Studio will be very useful to you, if you are working as a Web Developer or UI designer, who mainly uses Visual Studio for their day to day assignments.
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