MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Handle exceptions in a Visual Studio add-in

March 31, 2010

AFAIK, add-ins can’t use “global” exception handlers using AppDomain.UnhandledException, I think that because maybe all add-ins are loaded in the same AppDomain (not sure) and therefore it wouldn’t be suitable that an add-in handles the unhandled exception of another add-in… Anyway, I use exception handlers all around the code of my MZ-Tools add-in. Although I […]

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MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Locate the index of a CommandBarControl on a Commandbar to add a control or menu before or after it from a Visual Studio add-in.

March 31, 2010

After three whole months of procrastination about the MZ-Tools Articles Series and a lot of hesitation about continuing or giving up (I am continually struggling with day job, nights/weekends, family, spare time, some needed sport, this blog, the MSDN VSX forum, the MVP program, the MZ-Tools add-in, priorities balancing, etc. and even PS3 Top Spin […]

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The strange case of System.IO.FileLoadException: mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘X’ of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime

March 30, 2010

One of the customers of my MZ-Tools 6.0 for Visual Studio .NET add-in reported some days ago that the setup was showing the following error when installing MZ-Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (RC) (it worked fine for other IDE versions): “The assembly ‘VSLangProj80, version 8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ should be present in the Global Assembly Cache […]

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The strange case of .wixproj cannot be opened because its project type is not supported by this version of the application

March 27, 2010

Today I installed the latest 3.0 version of the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset (3.0.5419.0), which integrates with both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and provides a new project type and project template to create WiX setups. When I clicked the File, New Project menu, WiX project type, it worked fine in VS 2005. However, […]

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Creating setups for Visual Studio add-ins using Windows Installer XML (WiX)

March 27, 2010

Although as I have posted many times I personally use and recommend the free InnoSetup script-based tool to create the setup of my MZ-Tools family of add-ins (see HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup), there are people who prefer MSI-based setups. The tricky part of installing […]

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Tricky bugs in the new WPF-based shell of Visual Studio 2010

March 1, 2010

One of the things that I provide in my add-ins is that modal windows are 1) resizable and 2) with memory (that is, remembering the last size used by the user). I am passionate about user interface usability and I hate modal windows that are not resizable in today’s big screens, such as the Tools, […]

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MZ-Tools 6.0 now supporting Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

March 1, 2010

I updated my MZ-Tools 6.0 add-in to support Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and finally today March 1 I have released it. Microsoft finally fixed most of the bugs that I have been reporting in the last months in the WPF-based commandbars so add-ins can get loaded in the IDE without crashing and AFAIK I […]

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