MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Execute a command by Guid and Id from a Visual Studio package

There are a few articles / samples that I wrote in July but I forgot to blog about because I have been busy tuning this new web site and also I was a couple of weeks on vacation. This is the first of them.

Some years ago I wrote about executing a command by Guid and Id (rather than by name) from a VS add-in:

HOWTO: Execute a command by Guid and Id from a Visual Studio add-in
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008013.aspx

As part of my strategy to moving from add-in to package for my MZ-Tools add-in, I want to get rid of EnvDTE as much as possible, so this is the equivalent using an automation-free approach to do the same:

HOWTO: Execute a command by Guid and Id from a Visual Studio package
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2014/MZ2014018.aspx