Is a machine that only serve for compiling a VSIP project (and not
developing on), must have the VSIP installed on?
Is there a possibiliy only to provide required dlls?
Thanks,

I generated a new Addin in VS 2005. After recompiling and starting with F5
VS loads again and shows the new menu entry in the Tools menu. If I select
that menu entry, the VS JIT Debugger pops up with the following message:
"An unhandled win32 exception occured in devenv.exe [2468]"

i need to create a new project using the IvsSolution.CreateProject method.
to get a reference to IvsSolution i am using:
 IVsSolution solvin = (IVsSolution)GetService(typeof(SVsSolution));
however when i debug i find that  "solvin" is set to null even after the

How do I install VS SDK for June CTP? Or it's meant to just replace
files in installed VS Beta2 SDK?

Visual Studio Extensibility day at PDC
The VS Extensibility team will be providing a pre-conference session on
Monday September 12 at the Professional Developer's Conference in Los
Angeles. This 6 hour pre-con is a modified version of the VS Extensibility

I'm trying to create a trial version of my package, and I wanted to get some
guidance on the best way to disable my package when the trial has expired.
Currently I detect a trial expiration and install a default OleMenuCommand
for every one of my package's commands that simply ...

hi, Is it possible to develop applications for Pocket PC in Visual Studio
2003 in C++ without Compact Framework?
Thanks
Regards

I ran across old postings by Lee Nowotny on how to launch a fileless editor.
I have a very similar situation and need to open an editor (preferably the
built in Xml Editor) on a buffer in memory, and then when the user exits,
save the contents back into my custom storage.

is it possible to make managed extensions created in VS 2005 working in
older versions VS 2003, 2002?
I'm trying to do this with Project sample included in VSIP 8.0 and VS2003,
it has registered properly, but while trying to create the project VS says

All,
the VS 2005 SDK team has updated the download page for VS Extensibility,
available off of http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend
The page has been reorganized with all content tagged to a release. So all

I have to migrate a VS Add-in to VS 2005. I have the June CTP installed.
Some Questions arise, for which I can't find answers anywhere.
1. How does it work to show a custom bitmap in a toolbar? Is it with the
resource dlls in the language code subdirectories like in VS 2003? Is ...

How can I specify where my tool windows will be displayed by default after a
clean install of my package?  For example, I'd like one of my tool windows
to start up in the same tab group as the Project Explorer and I'd like
another tool window to start up in the bottom tab group ...

I have a project where we want to use the Visual Studio Automation model to
control visual studio from another executable. Basically we want to click a
button and luanch visual studio then create a new project and modify that
project.  I've done stuff with VSIP in the past, but ...

I created an addin itools menu and I want when a user clicks on it, it
should open an html page in the web browser within visual studio itself ( as
dynamic help works)....How can I do that???
I would appreciate any type of help.

Hello, I'm getting various "System.NotImplementedException was unhandled"
errors when running the c# ProjectSubType sample.  I'm working on
implementing a custom project type myself but considering that even the
samples shipping with VSIP are raising errors I'm somewhat concerned ...