Add-in created with VS New Project wizard doesn't show up on Tools

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Barbra - 03 May 2007 14:57 GMT

I'm new to add-ins. This morning I created a new project using the wizard in
VS 2005 (File-New-Project-Other Projects-Extensibility-Visual Studio Add-in)

I didn't do any custom coding, I just built the project that was created for
me and hit F5 to debug.

It brings up a new version of VS, but I don't see my add in in the Tools
menu, nor is it available through Add-In Manager.

Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?

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Bryan Phillips - 07 May 2007 22:11 GMT

In the Connect method of your add-in, you must put code to create menu
items and buttons that expose the functionality of your add-in.

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> I'm new to add-ins. This morning I created a new project using the wizard in
> VS 2005 (File-New-Project-Other Projects-Extensibility-Visual Studio Add-in)
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> Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?

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Barbra - 07 May 2007 22:34 GMT

Actually I figured it out, and that wasn't the problem. For whatever reason,
my installation of VS wasn't looking in the correct place for add-ins. Once I
added "%VSMYDOCUMENTS%\Addins" to the Add-in File paths
(tools-options-Add-in/macro security) everything worked fine.

> In the Connect method of your add-in, you must put code to create menu
> items and buttons that expose the functionality of your add-in.
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> > Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?

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