Dear all, I have a strange problem when compiling an installer project. All redist msm's seems to be added. Any ideas how to fix that? WARNING: Unable to find...
Hi, as I understand there are two types of Visual Studio 2005 extensibilities (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms297670.aspx): 1. Add-ins: assemblies...
AFAIK no, you need the .vsz file. Best regards, Carlos J. Quintero MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio. You can code, design, locate code and...
Upgrading a working addin from VS2003 to VS2005. There have been some other modifications to the code but not in this area. When deployed CreateToolWindow is...
Hi, I am deploying an addin for Word / Excel / PowerPoint. After installation the LoadBahaviour in the registry changes to 3 and then the Addin does not load....
There are some things to check: - When installed , is the add-in registered for all users or only for the current user? (are the installation user and the end...
Hi, I have checked these and here is the result. The Addin is registered for all the user and the installation and end user both are same. No the OnConnection...
Then I suggest to contact InstallShield if their setup does not work but the one's from Microsoft does. Also, it could be that a DLL is missing in the setup so...
Have you tried running FileMon from www.sysinternals.com on both machines (with and without VS installed) ? You may discover that the machine without VS is...
How do I hide a menu when none of its subitems qualify in the context For instance I create a menu SQL which three sub items off it. I create a menu C# which...
Hi, I have used CodeClass.IsDerivedFrom() to determine whether a class is derived from "System.Windows.Forms.Form". Now I have run into a problem using so...
Hi, I am trying to edit these MRU lists from my add-in... I have no problem reading / writing these lists in Registry, but the menu items for Recent Files /...
Those MRUs are updated by VS on exit, so there is no chance for an add-in to update them while VS is running. Best regards, Carlos J. Quintero MZ-Tools:...
Dear all, When I install my app on the one of test machines I get following error message. I checked and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop is not in GAC. My...
I have found the answer. I need to install VSIP Interop Assembly Redist.msi. Although I am not sure how to do that. 1. I would like to avoid starting this...
Adding a custom build even will not help, as unless you are building your code on every computer you wish to install to it will not help. There are two...
Dear Craig, I did as you suggested, start msi from the custom action. There are 2 problems: 1. The firewalls (i.e. Kerio Firewall) prevent the launching of the...
... Technically it should work, the only problem(s) may be legal. See the docs to see if the files are redistributable individually. Also: - In VS 2005 some...
In general, you cannot re-declare types/interfaces defined in an interop assembly in your own assembly and use them successfully. For example, if you define...
Dear Brent, I am not very good in fusion. But what I understand from http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/assemblydeployment.asp is: Both VS and my application...
The *default* search path is GAC, then search the private path for the loading AppDomain. However there are a number of complications that may affect what...
Hi, with VS 2005, I am finding that the behaviour of ISelectionService.SetSelectedComponents() is affected by the shift key. If the shift key is pressed, the...
Are any of you aware of a COM Add-In (or other solution) to run just the pre-build step for a project without invoking an actual build? If such an add-in does...
OK, please ignore my original post. It is clear that I'm not ASP .NET expert. It is not allowed to have source files in different languages on one web site....
Hi Peter, I was just reviewing your issue and I came to the same conclusion ;-) Best regards, Carlos J. Quintero MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual...
Hi, calling ProjectItem.IsOpen ( Constants.vsext_vk_Designer ) for a .master file in an ASP.NET 2.0 project seems to always return "True" regardless of whether...