Re-install Addin to VS2005

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M - 22 Mar 2006 20:43 GMT

I've been playing around with a simple add-in I'm working on for Vs2005. At
one point I'd given up on working on it and moved the project files to a
different folder. The next time I ran Visual Studio, it complained that it
could no longer find the add-in and asked if I wanted to remove the add-in
from the list. I responded yes; VS no longer tries to load the add-in, and
it no longer appears in the add-in manager's list.

So now I have time to continue playing with this, and I want to re-install
this add-in to visual studio. The add-in manager has no 'browse' command,
nor any other facility to allow me to re-add this add-in to the list of
those automatically loaded/recognized.

The question, then, is this: How do I inform VS2005 that an add-in exists at
a particular path, and get it to re-appear in the add-in manager?

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 23 Mar 2006 10:24 GMT

- If the add-in uses Windows registration, you need to recreate the registry
entries.

- If the add-in uses XML registration, you need to copy again the .AddIn
file to the \Visual Studio 2005\AddIns folder and adjust properly the
Assembly tag inside the xml file.

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> I've been playing around with a simple add-in I'm working on for Vs2005.
> At one point I'd given up on working on it and moved the project files to
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> The question, then, is this: How do I inform VS2005 that an add-in exists
> at a particular path, and get it to re-appear in the add-in manager?

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M - 23 Mar 2006 16:41 GMT

Thanks, Carlos.

>- If the add-in uses Windows registration, you need to recreate the
>registry entries.
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>> The question, then, is this: How do I inform VS2005 that an add-in exists
>> at a particular path, and get it to re-appear in the add-in manager?

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