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  • Post Build Events in VSTA

    Post build events are very important in VSTA (versions 1 and 2).  They are used to install files in the GAC, organize DLL's for add-in discovery, and in VSTA v 2, to rebuild the pipeline.  Here are the files used in post build events by the ShapeApp samples, the commands which run them, and some information about them. File:  ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on February 19, 2008

  • 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