bpreston,
Okay, I have a rough draft up for you (ShapeAppBasicVB VSTA2 VS05). There will be a better samples for this soon (including macro recroding and dpm) but I didn't want you to have to wait any longer.
There is very breif documentation in the Walkthrough.txt that is included as a solution item. In general, just follow the steps from the ShapeApp walkthroughs and use this sample to see the VB syntax. The only major change is that for Visual Studio 2005 a macro needs to be run on the proxy becuase it relies on some new C# syntax included in Visual Studio 2008. The macro is included as a solution item, just copy and paste so that it is run when your temporary macro is run. Only run this macro with the proxy.cs file selected as the active document. If you do not have the SP1 for VS05 you may not be able to run macros.
Included in this sample is a registration file for the hives, but you'll still need to run setup (careful with command lines! make sure you manually change your directory to those shown in the walkthrough.txt). I also included a tmeplate and sample add-in. I was able to load the sample add-in.
If you have any questions or a special request please don't hesitate to ask. We're here to help.
Thanks!
-Melody
**Edit**
For more information on the macro mentioned above, or to download it, check out the Visual Studio 2005 VSTA v 2 Proxy Fix download.