Recently was working with Rhino making custom plugins
I already learned a lot with VVVV about VS/C#/Plugin world, so things went quite smoothly.
One thing that really helped getting started was an official plugin for Visual Studio (basically templates for making plugins). It gets you started really quickly
the templates you clone from when starting a new plugin for vvvv as described here: dynamic plugins reference have always been standard .csproj files that you can open in visualstudio or any other c# editor as well, right? so apart from that what are you missing? for vl of course things will be even simpler…
the advantage of using the official templates is that there’s some level of guarantee that you have the right starting point. whilst a user-contributed template is likely to cause issues when it comes out of date
obviously everything’s busy in the house right now, so no point in asking for anything outside the bandwidth of what’s possible :)