Microsoft "expecting to remove add-ins from Visual Studio in a future version". Will they be in Visual Studio 2013 announced today?

June 4, 2013

According to the answers to my last two bugs reported yesterday about add-ins on Microsoft Connect: “Addins are an old technology that we are advising customers to move away from. We expect to remove this from the product in a future version.” Macros were gone in Visual Studio 2012, and it seems that add-ins will […]

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MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: Error ocurred in add-in wizard if add-in project created inside solution folder

June 4, 2013

Don’t you like when you find two bugs in a row? Apart from this other bug, I also found this one using the add-in wizard of Visual Studio, and again the curious part is that it worked in Visual Studio 2005, but was broken in Visual Studio 2008 and the bug persists. I have reported […]

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MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: Checkbox to create CommandBar disabled in add-in wizard if name contains ‘.’

June 4, 2013

I have created tons of add-ins in the last years using the add-in wizard of Visual Studio, and the other day I wanted to use a project name with a ‘.’ dot character in the name. I noticed this bug that I have reported to Microsoft Connect: Checkbox to create CommandBar disabled in add-in wizard […]

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