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Templates to help automate VSTA v 2.0 integrations are now available. Run the included setup file to move the templates to the Visual Studio 2008 template caches (may need to restart Visual Studio for templates to work). Proxy Project- inlcude all files and post build event necessary to place the proxy...
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The easiest way to register a template with the host application is to use the “Register template with host application” check box found on the last screen of the Project Template Wizard (ProjectGen). However, there are instances when a template needs to be more robust than the basic templates that can...
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Overview: Part I described how to automate the DLL organization of a project. This section describes how to modify templates so that all projects based off of them automatically organize their DLL’s. The template may be created with ProjectGen, which is a tool included with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for...
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Overview: Finding DLL’s programmatically can be challenging if they are not well organized. For VSTA integration several DLL’s may need to be found including add-in’s to load. In the ShapeApp samples included with the SDK, the add-in samples copy their DLL’s into the folders %MyDocuments%\%HostID%\AppAddins...
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This zip file includes the ShapeAppVB and ShapeAppBasicVB applications as well as a walkthrough. The walkthrough will take you step by step integrating VSTA into ShapeAppVB. Once the walkthrough is complete, the host application will search for and load two add-ins created using a project template. This...
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The host application must be registered before templates can be made or the IDE can be started through the host application. But what if after you register the app you need to make changes to the registries? How can you make changes under the HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSTAHostConfig\<HostID>...
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This is an updated version of the TestCon example. This version includes changes to the QuickStart document including additional instructios and code modifications. For an overview please see the post "Work Through the TestCon Example" .
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Introduction: TestCon is a good integration example to start with, especially if you are not an expert at Visual Studio. In the TestCon_QuickStart document, each procedure has step by step instructions on how to execute them in Visual Studio so there is very little chance of getting lost in the interface...