For Beta 1, we did no special work to enable or disable Add-ins - they are
available because the Express editions derive from the core Visual Studio DLL.
However, future releases of the Express editions may not support Add-ins,
Macros, or VSIP packages. Each AppID (our internal terminology - VS, Express C#,
Express Web, etc. is each an AppID) has the ability to turn extensibility
features on or off, and the current plan of record is that the Express SKUs will
turn this off. There are a couple reasons for this decision, some to control the
download size, some are marketing related. The intent of an Express edition is
to support hobbyists, and while I know many of you on this list can be
considered hobbyist extensibility developers (some do it for a living, some to
just make their jobs easier), the focus of the Express edition is on a certian
set of scenarios that extensibility development does not support.

Craig

________________________________

From: Arild Fines [mailto:arild.fines@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 5:35 AM
To: vsnetaddin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [vsnetaddin] VS Express editions and addins


Quintero Vivar, Carlos Javier wrote:
> I donīt know. According to
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/faq/default.aspx#vbasic
> <http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/faq/default.aspx#vbasic> you
> can
> build Class Libraries, and addins are class libraries, arenīt they?
> But I am
> not sure if EnvDTE.dll is available...

I was referring to them being able to host addins, actually. There is a
Tools->Addin Manager, but it comes up empty, and I've heard rumors that
it'll go away for the next beta.

>
> You can download the beta and test yourself:
>
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/default.aspx
> <http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/default.aspx>

I have. The results are inconclusive.

--
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