MZ-Tools articles series: HOWTO: Removing commands and UI elements during Visual Studio .NET add-in uninstallation (updated)

March 28, 2008

I have updated a quite old but useful article (Feb 2005) to document the new /ResetAddin command-line flag of Visual Studio 2005/2008 and how to do it correctly: HOWTO: Removing commands and UI elements during Visual Studio .NET add-in uninstallation http://www.mztools.com/articles/2005/MZ2005002.aspx It is important to note that the /ResetAddin command-line flag will remove permanent controls but not […]

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Posted by Carlos Quintero

devenv.exe /SafeMode and add-ins in Visual Studio 2005 / 2008

March 28, 2008

Just a curious difference in behavior between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 that the MSDN documentation doesn’t cover very well: According to the MSDN documentation of VS 2005, “This switch prevents all third-party VSPackages from loading when Visual Studio starts, thus ensuring stable execution.” One would expect that if third-party VSPackages are not loaded, add-ins would […]

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Posted by Carlos Quintero