I have created an addin for VS05 profession edition that will automatically gac and register all projects in a solution that require it. The addin works correctly on the dev machine but when i try to give to any other developers it will not work.
I have been sending them the .addin and the project .dll files and having them place them in the Addins folder. The addin will not even appear in the addin manager. Any suggestions
I know I originally tried it by registering the assembly in the GAC and that did not work for me, so I stopped that, then it would find it in the location I specified to "LookIn"
Do you mind posting the contents of the .addin file
Just to be clear...
The .addin file is in the same location as GacReg.dll like such:
c:\SomeFolder\Foo\GacReg.AddIn
c:\SomeFolder\Foo\GacReg.dll
Then you added "C:\SomeFolder\Foo" in the registry key below
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders
After adding that reg key, does the path show in Visual Studio under Tools>>Options>>Add-in/Macro Security, in the Add-in File Paths
if you add directly into that list via the IDE, I am pretty sure it rights the path to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders
Yes that is all correct, this is why we are so stumped. I even took the .addin and .dll home and they worked instantly my home machine. I guess it has to be somthing with the VS setup on their machines.
The files are in the same Dir.
The reg key is added here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders
The path appears in VS under tools>>options>>addin/macro security & still it does not pick them up.
I even tryed to remove the dll and leave the addin file so that it would throw the error that the dll could not be found and nothing, so thats why i think that it is still not even tryin to load the addin for whatever reason. Thank you for your help so far it is much appreciated.