Carlos Quintero's blog

I thought that I had already reported these ones to Microsoft for VS 2008, but I don’t find the bug reports and anyway the bugs are still present in VS 2010 Beta 1: Visual Studio hardcodes “Application Data” folder in the list of folders for .AddIn files https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=466756 %ALLUSERSDOCUMENTS%\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns folder is not searched for add-ins […]

Given that add-ins for Visual Studio can use COM-based registration or XML-based registration and that the first one uses two locations (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / HKEY_CURRENT_USER) and the second one uses up to six folders by default (Tools, Options window, Environment, AddIn/Macros Security section), when developing and troubleshooting add-ins I often wonder where an add-in is registered from. I have filed a […]

If you are subscribed to the RSS of this blog, chances are that you are an add-in developer, because despite its title, I don’t write very much about macros (nobody really uses them) and I don’t know about SDK packages, only a little about how to call SDK services from an add-in. So, if you […]

A week ago I blogged about some nasty bugs that happened in VS 2010 Beta 1 when using the new WPF-based commandbars from an add-in. While VS 2010 Beta 1 was very disappointing for me in this regard, the response from Microsoft in the last days has been great and so far the following ones […]