Web Matrix Sneak Peek #3

Today's been especially busy, but just managing to squeeze one in... ;-)

This screenshot shows one of the new types of plugins that can be developed for Web Matrix - Document Wizards. Document Wizards allow you to implement a wizard to collect information and then generate the initial content of a new document. The particular wizard being shown is a simple wizard for creating a skeleton HTTP handler in an .ashx file (thanks for the idea, Dan). The two other types of plugins are Code Wizards (aka Code Builders) and Add-ins.



All plugins have access to the active document, the selected code language, database connections opened in the IDE and various other services to be able to better plug into the environment. I hope to release some basic documentation on how to write one of these plugins sometime after this upcoming version is available along with samples (such as the code to this one). Hopefully there will be interest in writing cool new plugins to extend whats already available.