How to package a multi assembly VS 2005 add-in

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Jeff MAURY - 02 Oct 2006 11:40 GMT

I have the following problem: I develop a VS 2005 add-in that is composed of
2 assembly: the one for my add-in and a general purpose assembly. Both are in
my add-in solution. When I debug my add-in, it works fine. But when I start
VS from scratch, I can see my command in the IDE but I can never execute them
because it seems VS cannot load the general purpose assembly. The directory
where my add-in assembly is located is never looked up.VS 2005 look for
standard directories instead (C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\Common7\IDE, C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies and C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies).
So I am wondering how should I package my add-in for set up ?

Thanks
Jeff

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Peter Macej - 02 Oct 2006 13:01 GMT

> VS from scratch, I can see my command in the IDE but I can never execute them
> because it seems VS cannot load the general purpose assembly. The directory

Are you sure this is the reason for commands not working? Our add-in
also uses multiple assemblies that are stored as DLLs in the same
directory as add-in's main DLL. There is no problem locating them. They
are all in one add-in solution and we didn't do anything special.

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Jeff MAURY - 02 Oct 2006 13:18 GMT

> > VS from scratch, I can see my command in the IDE but I can never execute them
> > because it seems VS cannot load the general purpose assembly. The directory
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> directory as add-in's main DLL. There is no problem locating them. They
> are all in one add-in solution and we didn't do anything special.

Is is on VS 2005 ? I am pretty sure this is the problem because I used
filemon to track assmebly loading and I saw it tries to load it but can't do
it. How did you package your add-in ?

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Jeff MAURY - 02 Oct 2006 14:17 GMT

Peter,

I found the solution: this was because the LoadBehavior flag in my test
.AddIn file was set to 0. Setting it to 1 make the addin to work correctly.

Thanks for the help
Jeff

> > > VS from scratch, I can see my command in the IDE but I can never execute them
> > > because it seems VS cannot load the general purpose assembly. The directory
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> filemon to track assmebly loading and I saw it tries to load it but can't do
> it. How did you package your add-in ?

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