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# Extensibility (Blog category)

Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts.

HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/extensibility · 4 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt)

- [VS Addins Revisited: Declarative button order and location with a DSL](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/3/vs-addins-revisited-declarative-button-order-and-location-wi.md) (2008-08-03): First, here is the code with the updates . In the previous post I showed how you can declaratively create buttons with captions and icons in a visual studio addin. the next problem to solve in that space is how to you…
- [Before testing an addin - Reset Visual Studio’s previous addin knowledge](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/3/before-testing-an-addin-reset-visual-studios-previous-addin.md) (2008-08-03): note to self: if you are testing an installation of an addin on a “dirty” machine where this addin has already been removed and installed many times, be sure to clean visual studio from the previous addin with this…
- [Declarative Visual Studio addin buttons with icons](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/2/declarative-visual-studio-addin-buttons-with-icons.md) (2008-08-02): in the previous pos t I said how I hated doing custom icons for addins and showed how you can make it work. In this post I’ll show what I feel is a better way of managing the actions on the buttons, and how to…
- [Howto: Set custom Visual Studio Addin menu icons without a satellite dll](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/8/2/howto-set-custom-visual-studio-addin-menu-icons-without-a-sa.md) (2008-08-02): Update : Here is a more full featured declarative example of doing buttons with icons . OK. Setting icons on your visual studio addins is officially a sucky process and I wish MS would make this a much less painful…


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/