The 3ds Max Plug-in Wizard (commonly called the AppWizard) is an add-in for Visual Studio that builds skeleton plug-ins for 3ds Max. You simply have to specify what plug-in type you would like to build, and follow the directions in the wizard. The wizard generates the Visual Studio project files, the CPP files, and skeleton code with "TODO" comments.
Open the 3ds MaxPluginWizard. vsz file (in the maxsdk\Howto\3dsmaxPluginWizard directory root) in a text editor and edit the ABSOLUTE PATH parameter to reflect the new location of the 3dsmaxPluginWizard root directory. Do not add a backslash after the directory name.
Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = [Absolute Path Location of 3dsmaxPluginWizard Root Directory]"
Copy the following files from the 3dsmaxPluginWizard root to the 'VC\vcprojects' directory under your Visual Studio installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010\VC\vcprojects):
The 3ds Max Plug-in Wizard project should appear when you restart Microsoft Visual Studio and select File > New:Projects > Visual C++ Projects from the menu.