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Rainer Queck - 10 Jul 2007 10:05 GMT

Hello NG,

I moved my AddIn Project from one machine to a other.

This AddIn is a AddIn for Visual Studio 2005.

Now I cant test it any more. It builds Ok and starting the debugger an other
instance of VS2005 is started also, but my AddIn doesn't show in the Tools
Menu.

I suppose, there is a certain procedure to follow, if a AddIn Project is
moved from one machine to a other, right? If so, what is the right way?

Also, how can I deploy a AddIn? Which files must be placed where?

Thanks for any help!

Regards

Rainer Queck

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 11 Jul 2007 03:55 GMT

Hi Rainer,

There should be a linked file such as "MyAddin123 - For Testing.AddIn" in
the project which points to a path such as "E:\Documents and
Settings\wawang\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins\MyAddin123 - For
Testing.AddIn", the content of this file will point to current project's
generated assembly, therefore when the second instance of IDE starts up, it
will load it.

I think you need to copy this file from your original machine and copy to
new machine, also you need to modify the path to the addin assembly.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to let me know if there's anything
unclear. Thanks.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Rainer Queck - 11 Jul 2007 10:30 GMT

Hi Walter,

> Hope this helps. Please feel free to let me know if there's anything
> unclear. Thanks.

Yes, that helped. I can now continue the work on my add-in on my new
machine. Thanks!

Regards
Rainer

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Peter Macej - 11 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT

> Also, how can I deploy a AddIn? Which files must be placed where?

The add-in must be registered on target machine. See
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ009.htm for the most common
problems, including yours.

Also, see this great series of articles about VS add-ins from Carlos J.
Quintero - http://www.mztools.com/resources_vsnet_addins.htm. You will
find almost everything you need to know when creating VS add-in there.

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Rainer Queck - 11 Jul 2007 10:36 GMT

Hello Peter,

thank you very much for those links.
Looks like I can gather lots of information there.
I think I start reading right now ;-)

Regards
Rainer

>> Also, how can I deploy a AddIn? Which files must be placed where?
>
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> Quintero - http://www.mztools.com/resources_vsnet_addins.htm. You will
> find almost everything you need to know when creating VS add-in there.

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