What is the Visual Studio DTE?

Question

I have been slowly digging through Visual Studio's SDK, but could not yet figure out what DTE stands for. This is a silly question, but I really can't seem to find it. DTE is super useful, it would be super cool to know what it is as well.

Answer 1

It stands for Development Tools Environment.

They don't seem to mention it much, the only page on MSDN I could find that says what it stands for is this one.

Answer 2

DTE = "Development Tools Environment"

Essentially, I understand it to be the part of Visual Studio that lets you interact with the computer itself. This can control things such as active windows and applications.

Answer 3

From MSDN:

EnvDTE is an assembly-wrapped COM library containing the objects and members for Visual Studio core automation.