I have spent some time on trying to re-create a add-in that had existed in VB6 that would allow me to play audio and video files within the Visual Studio IDE while I code.

This project is based on the .NET 2.0 framework and is coded using the VSPackage integration process.

This code/solution has taught me a lot on how to write and modify the vsPackage information and how to utilized external assemblies to handle core processes of the 'host' application.

As a side note, I am including the source code, but you must make a base solution within VS to 'link' them all together.  vsAmp2 requires the playlistEditor.dll from the PlaylistManager project.

Download Source code: vsAmp2.zip