The information in this topic applies only to System Center 2012 SP1.
Views are defined in the manifest. Just like actions, they are represented in the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) console as ribbon buttons. When the button is clicked by the user, the view defined in a .NET assembly will be displayed. For more information about how to create an assembly that can be used by a view,ji-r2">
Inside the manifest’s root XML node, create a node named ViewAddIn.
Add an attribute named Contexts to the view node and node and set the value to one or more context values. For more information about which context values can be used, see Manifests.
Add an attribute named AssemblyName to the view node and set the value to the assembly containing the code identified by the Name attribute. This is the file name of the assembly without the extension.
Add an attribute named Name to the view node. The value of this XML attribute would be the name of the System.Addin.AddinAttribute attribute from the assembly identified by the AssemblyName XML attribute.
Optionally add the Icon and ShowInContextMenu attributes.
