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  • Registering templates with the host application.

    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 be created through ProjectGen and ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on September 10, 2007

  • Moving and Organizing DLL’s to Make VSTA Integration Easier. Part II- Project Templates

    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 Applications, or ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on July 3, 2007

  • Moving and Organizing DLL’s to Make VSTA Integration Easier. Part I- Projects

    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 and ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on July 2, 2007

  • ShapeAppBasicVB Samples and Walkthrough

    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 is based on the ...
    Posted to VSTA Samples (FileGallery) by Melody on June 29, 2007

  • Bug in ShapeAppCSharp Macro Project Generation

    Hi, we are currently evaluating VSTA and working with the ShapeAppCSharp advanced sample. One of our test was to install the sample on a clean XP Pro SP2 German machine with these easy steps: Build the setup project of the solution on a developer machine Install the .NET framework on the target machine Install MSXML6 on the target ...
    Posted to VSTA Tech Discussions (Forum) by MiFi on June 12, 2007

  • Changing Registry Entries for the Host Application

      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> registry and be ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on May 29, 2007

  • TestCon_v_2 - Minimal VSTA Integration Sample- update

    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''.
    Posted to VSTA Samples (FileGallery) by Melody on May 22, 2007

  • Working Through the TestCon_v_2 Example

    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.  This example has you build a ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on May 22, 2007

  • VSTA Integration Without using Proxygen and Wrapper Class, Feasible?

    Dear All,I created the similar question in MSDN forum, but I was told that this would be a better place to seek for opinion and suggestion, hence I re-post it here again.Please refer to the original post here.http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1109340&SiteID=1Thank you.
    Posted to VSTA Tech Discussions (Forum) by aahkam on January 14, 2007

  • Re: VSTA Intergration

    Hello Mustafin Artur, For the help documentation problem, we have found that uninstalling all versions of the VS SDK, re-installing the August 06, VS SDK and then installing VSTA removes the naming collision with the help document URLs.  After following these steps, the help documentation URLs should all work. To learn how to integrating ...
    Posted to VSTA Tech Discussions (Forum) by Gary on December 19, 2006