Getting started in Developing extensions for Dreamweaver CC

Hi,
i'm looking for info on how to get started developing extensions for DW CC. Specifically:
1. guides, tutorials
2. API reference
What i'm looking to be able to do is, among others:
1. add elements for inserting into the "insert" panel/menu
2. add panels.
3. be able to drag elements from that panel into the design
4. be able to identify tags in the web page as special tags. like how jquery UI tags are identified and have this little hovering label
5. be able to develop specialized property views for special tags. like how jquery ui tags have special properties, once i pressed that little hovering label thing.
One question that answering can really help - can say the guides for CS5 be a good starting point, and from there figure out what to do via the extendscript toolkit?
of are there later guides that i can use?
Regards,
Gal.

Hi Gal,
I quote from an very old note in my library:
True, the Adobe documentation on extensions creation is very slim, especially if you are looking at the latest releases. What I think you should do is to look back to the origins. First of all the SDK offers great examples (from 2003):
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1009962
Also there are two great books: Dreamweaver MX Extensions by Laura Gutman and Building Dreamweaver 4 & UltraDev 4 Extensions by Tom Muck and Ray West. I believe you may read free chapters online in places such Safari library or Google books.
The books are old, you have to understand and adapt for the new versions, but in essence everything stays the same.
... and here another Adobe link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/extend/dreamweaver_cs5_extending.pdf (see page 2 "Creating an extension")
On the other hand I'm sure you could ask well known, long-established developers. Some of them roam through our forum.
Hans-Günter

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