Hi,

I am trying to use the MSDE 2000 Deployment Toolkit with VS.NET 2005. The
toolkit includes a VS.NET Addin.  After some research, I discovered that
VS.NET 2005 is using a different means to register Addins. Basically it seems
to require an .Addin file (xml). I created a M2KBSLC.Addin file (see below
for the contents), and placed it in the same folder as the M2KBSLC.dll file.
In VS.NET 2005, under Options, I added the path to the list of places VS
looks for Addins.

The "MSDE 2000 Boostrap Loader Configurator" now shows up in my VS.NET 2005
Add-in Manager but it is broken. I can check it, but when I click OK in the
Add-in Manager I get the following error:

"The Add-in 'MSDE 2000 Bootstrap Loader Configurator' failed to load or
caused an exception. Would you like to remove this Add-in? If you choose yes,
the file it was loaded from, 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\MSDE 2000 Deployment
Toolkit\M2KBSLC.Addin', will be renamed.

Error Message: <Unknown Error>
Error number: 80131513"

Here is my best shot at an M2KBSLC.Addin file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Extensibility xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AutomationExtensibility">
   <HostApplication>
       <Name>Microsoft Visual Studio</Name>
       <Version>8.0</Version>
   </HostApplication>
   <HostApplication>
       <Name>Microsoft Visual Studio Macros</Name>
       <Version>8.0</Version>
   </HostApplication>
   <Addin>
       <FriendlyName>MSDE 2000 Bootstrap Loader Configurator</FriendlyName>
       <Description>This add-in is used for the installation of MSDE
2000.</Description>
       <AboutBoxDetails>Copyright 2005.</AboutBoxDetails>
       <AboutIconData></AboutIconData>
       <Assembly src="file">C:\Program Files\Microsoft\MSDE 2000 Deployment
Toolkit\M2KBSLC.dll</Assembly>
       <FullClassName>M2KBSLC.Connect</FullClassName>
       <LoadBehavior>0</LoadBehavior>
       <CommandPreload>0</CommandPreload>
       <CommandLineSafe>0</CommandLineSafe>
   </Addin>
</Extensibility>

Any thoughts, helpful hints, and/or suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve