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Nabeel Moeen - 14 Dec 2005 14:43 GMT

when creating a new extensibility addin for vstudio 2003 using the wizard the
code generated does not add a "Command" to the 'Tools' "CommandBar"

i tried getting the controls count for the "CommandBar" object indexed by
"Tools"
and it gives me teh count as 0.

Can anyone confirm if the code generated by the wizard is buggy?

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 14 Dec 2005 15:42 GMT

I don´t know about that problem (I am quite sure that the Tools commandbar
has something greater than 0 commands, you know) but see this article of
mine:

HOWTO: Adding buttons, commandbars and toolbars to Visual Studio .NET from
an add-in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555326

Which language are you using?

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> when creating a new extensibility addin for vstudio 2003 using the wizard
> the
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> Can anyone confirm if the code generated by the wizard is buggy?

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Nabeel Moeen - 16 Dec 2005 09:19 GMT

Hi Carlos,

I went through your article and figured out the problem (or the cause of the
behavior).
The code generated by the wizard adding the controls to the Tools commandbar
in an "if" statement that was checking for the connectionMode ==
Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup.
Your articles use the Startup and AfterStartup connection modes to add the
new control to the commandBar.

Now i've got my control appearing in the Tools menu.
Can you suggest a reason why the UISetup mode wasn't working? and which is a
better approach?

Regards,
Nabeel Moeen

> I don´t know about that problem (I am quite sure that the Tools commandbar
> has something greater than 0 commands, you know) but see this article of
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> > Can anyone confirm if the code generated by the wizard is buggy?

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 20 Dec 2005 15:28 GMT

Hi Nabeel,

The UISetup phase is fired only once. See my other article:

INFO: Visual Studio .NET Add-In Commands Disappear On Next Session
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555321

There are lots of articles on my web site (below) to help with this and
other problems. Take a look at them.

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MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET,
VB6, VB5 and VBA
You can code, design and document much faster in VB.NET, C#, C++ or VJ#
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http://www.mztools.com

> Hi Carlos,
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> Regards,
> Nabeel Moeen

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Nabeel Moeen - 21 Dec 2005 13:39 GMT

Thanks for the help Carlos.
I'll look into the articles you mentioned.

Regards,
Nabeel Moeen

> Hi Nabeel,
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