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  • Updating VSTA Project Templates Tutorial

    This tutorial gives step by step instructions on how to update a project template to mimic the ShapeApp sample templates which use a post build event to move add-in assemblies to %My Documents%\ShapeAppCSharp\AppAddIns.  Files included:    The video tutorial:  Updating VSTA Project Templates Tutorial.wmv   ...
    Posted to VSTA Samples (FileGallery) by Melody on March 4, 2008

  • Project Template Potpourri

    I've been working a lot with project templates and ProjectGen lately.  Here are some miscellaneous findings based on the VSTA v 2 CTP February 2008 release. ProjectGen does not find hosts registered in the Wow6432Node.  This is a known issue with this build and is listed as fixed in the next release.  To work around this, ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on March 3, 2008

  • Registry and Registry Settings Changes in VSTA v 2

    VSTA v 2 host configuration registry entries are similar to VSTA v 1’s- there are a few new entries and a change in how they are organized. Two of the most noticeable differences are the “2.0” subkey and “VSTAVersion” entry.  VSTA v 2 entries are stored in the “2.0” subkey, which resides beneath the host subkey in the ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on February 19, 2008

  • Project Templates: ProjectGen and "Unregistering" templates

    To remove or ''unregister'' project templates: The easiest way to remove or ''unregister'' project templates which are registered with a host is to use the vsta and devenv setup commands.  These commands get the VSTA project templates location and the Visual Studio project templates locations specified in the VSTAHostConfig ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on February 7, 2008

  • Re: VSTA With VB.Net / Help Please

    bpreston, No problem- this was one of our first test cases.  There are a couple of things that may have caused this problem.  If you have VSTA v 1 installed you may be bringing up version 1 of ProxyGen or ProjectGen.  If you added the descriptor file to a project and then modified it, you may be running the original ...
    Posted to Discussion (Forum) by Melody on January 15, 2008

  • Re: AddIn.Load throws an exception

    Ric,    I'm glad to hear you are making progress!  Don't feel bad about the reference question, we see that a lot.  Did you know you can add additional references to the project (add-in) templates with ProjectGen?  Also, if you are interested in getting your add-ins to work like the ShapeApp samples (where the add-in ...
    Posted to VSTA Tech Discussions (Forum) by Melody on January 3, 2008

  • Moving and Organizing DLL’s to Make VSTA Integration Easier. Part IV- Keeping the current Proxy in the GAC. Updated for VSTA v 2

    Overview: During development, changes may need to be made to the proxy.  Anytime the proxy is changed its assembly needs to be re-installed in the GAC.  Failing to do this will result in the last version installed in the GAC to be used by VSTA and the error ''The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on August 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

  • Re: VSTA Integration

    Hello Mustafin Artur 1. Here's an excerpt on ProjectGen cut from our VBA walkthrough...(just use your app name instead of ShapeAppVBA) Creating the ShapeAppVBA Project Templates Once you have registered the host application, added the proxy assembly to the global assembly cache, and suppressed the runtime exceptions, you can successfully load ...
    Posted to VSTA Tech Discussions (Forum) by Gary on December 13, 2006
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