Dan Fernandez and James Lau from Microsoft have been busy recently and wrote a Visual Studio Shell isolated IDE for World of Warcraft (WoW) which is named AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft. This IDE is available as an open source project on CodePlex and can be another good example of Visual Studio isolated mode which is a new topic in VS 2008.

This project is licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and includes some key features:

• Visual Design Surface
• Lua Code Editor
• FrameXML IntelliSense
• Auto-Generate Table of Contents
• Auto-Generate Lua Events

This would be a good recommendation for everyone who wants to dive deeper into VS Shell isolated mode and you can check out its design and source code to learn many things.