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Visual Studio Add-ins

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By Terry Bottorff - 5/10/2010

I have an add-in that is in the form of a dll. How do I get it to show up as an add-in in VS2008?

I am not sure I am asking this question correctly. If I need to post more info I can.

TIA.
By Peter Jones - 5/10/2010

Hi Terry,



From memory I think there is an Add In Manager under Tools.



Cheers, Peter
By Terry Bottorff - 5/11/2010

Peter there absolutely is an addin manager under tools. But mine shows some addin's that are already registered and it has 2 buttons on it.... OK and Cancel. How does the dll get registered or does it have to be???
By Peter Jones - 5/11/2010

Hi Terry,



Sorry, can't help any further - I've had need to use Add Ins.



As far as registering a DLL I don't think that's needed. I think registration was a COM / ActiveX type activity that isn't needed in .Net.



Cheers, Peter
By Terry Bottorff - 5/12/2010

Thanks anyway. Maybe someone else can help, but it is not a show stopper so onward and upward.....
By Charles R Hankey - 5/12/2010

Take a look at this :



http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/19dax6cz%28VS.80%29.aspx



then google "visual studio add-in dll"



Don't claim to know much about Add-ins but I noticed vs2010 Gallery there are now add-in packages that end in vsix that are self-deploying. Very cool.



http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto/archive/2009/05/26/what-is-a-vsix.aspx
By Terry Bottorff - 5/12/2010

Thanks Charles. I will check into those resources and we will see what happens... Thanks again.