hi
I need to install something into Visual Studio. It is what I would call an "SDK". Which is a compiler (an exe) installed to somewhere (c:\program files\...) and some project templates and project items. All for C++ (at least at the moment).
We have a setup that does all this (msi file). But our extension doesn't show up as an "SDK" in the extension manager (only under "templates").
Our question now is, if we can do something to get our extension into this group or if an SDK is something special in Visual Studio and if it is, could we convert our thing into an SDK?
The only examples I can find describing an SDK is for .net or wrt and there we have something like an "sdkmanifest.xml" with a "file reference" ... and, I don't have winmd files. But... I've no idea how this is done today. Can you write an SDK and (also in C++ native projects) somehow import/link stuff via those files and the "references" item that I can see in the project tree?
... is there somewhere some useful documentation for native project extension? Not always about the .net / winrt or other stuff?
Rudolf