add-in

What Visual Studio add-ins do you use?

I have the following installed: Imports Sorter (for VS 2005) GhostDoc Regex Find and Replace (.Net regex compatible find and replace, because VS has its own regex syntax) rockscroll Smart Paster Sonic File Finder Cool Commands ...

Outlook Add-in using .NET

Hello, We have been developing an Outlook Add-in using Visual Studio 2008. However I am facing a strange behavior while adding a command button to a custom command bar. This behavior is reflected when we add the button in the reply, reply all and forward windows. The issue is that the caption of the command button is not visible though ...

Visual Studio 08 Spell Check Addin?

If possible one that supports at least spell checking: C# string literals HTML content Comments ...

Resources for building a Visual Studio plug-in?

Hi, I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++? I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me... Thanks. ...

Visual Studio Extensibility: Adding existing folders to a project

I'm trying to use Visual Studio 2008's extensibility to write an addin that will create a project folder with various messages in it after parsing an interface. I'm having trouble at the step of creating/adding the folder, however. I've tried using ProjectItem folder = item.ProjectItem.Collection.AddFolder(newDirectoryName, string.Emp...

What is your favorite visual studio plugin?

What is your favorite visual studio plugin? ...

Excel Addin Access Violation

Using c#, VS2005, and .NET 2.0. (XP 32 bit) This is a Winforms app that gets called by a VBA addin (.xla) via Interop libraries. This app has been around for a while and works fine when the assembly is compiled and executed anywhere other than my dev machine. On dev it crashes hard (in debugger and just running the object) with "Unhandl...

Anyone know of any (free / open source) VI integration for Visual Studio?

vi is for cool kids. ...

Developing MS Word add-in

Hi, Anyone knows of a good tool for developing add-ins for Word in .net? Hopefully something that supports both office 2003 and 2007. Thanks. ...

Word 2007 Add-in

Okay this question is coming from someone who has never written any code beyond CSS, HTML and some php... Pretty much I'm using Word all day and constantly needing to refer to just a couple of sites and resources on the web. I would like to create a little add-in to go in the Ribbon in Word. I have the full VB 2008 Proffesional editio...

Visual Studio window Manager

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a window manager for visual studio 2008 like this one. I really liked it, thats all i used in vs2005, and saw somewhere it supposed to work in vs2008 but it doesnt. I have tried it on many installations of vs2008 and it doesnt remember any settings. I really liked being able to easily change window ...

Plugins wont work with vb.net express.

What won't plugins wont work with vb c# studio express? ...

Unit Testing of .NET Add-In for Microsoft Office

Has anyone got any suggestions for unit testing a Managed Application Add-In for Office? I'm using NUnit but I had the same issues with MSTest. The problem is that there is a .NET assembly loaded inside the Office application (in my case, Word) and I need a reference to that instance of the .NET assembly. I can't just instantiate the ...

Embedded Outlook View Control

I am trying to make an Outlook 2003 add-in using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 7. My add-in is using custom Folder Home Page which displays my custom form, which wraps Outlook View Control. I get COM Exception with 'Exception from HRESULT: 0xXXXXXXXX' description every time when I try to set Folder property...

How do you check if a variable is used in a project programmatically?

In VB.NET (or C#) how can I determine programmatically if a public variable in class helper.vb is used anywhere within a project? Thanks in advance. ...

Unknown Outlook MailItem EntryID

My Outlook add-in handles NewInspector event of the Inspector object, in order to display a custom form for the mail item. I can get EntryID of the CurrentItem of the Inspector object which is passed as a parameter of the event. But, the problem is that the EntryID of the current mail item is shorter than it should be, and is unknown. I...

Release COM Components

Is it really necessary to release COM components from Office PIA, when you don't need them anymore by invoking Marshal.ReleaseComObject(..)? I found various and contradictory advices on this topic on the web. In my opinion, since Outlook PIA is always returning a new references to its interfaces as returning values from its methods, it ...

How can I GZip compress a file from Excel VBA using code in an .xla file only?

I need to be able to GZip compress a file in an Excel VBA function. Specifically I need to be able to use the 'deflate' algorithm. Is there a way to do this without having to exec a command line application? With no dependency on external tools the code will be more robust. Ideally the code would make use of pre-installed VBA or COM li...

Attaching a DLL to debug?

I have a DLL as an add-in in a third party application. When I launch the DLL from MS Visual Studio 2005 in debug mode the third party application will crash. Instead of launching my DLL from Visual Studio in debug mode, I try to launch the third party application first which will load my DLL. Then I attach my DLL to the third party app...

How can you make use of the add-in framework in .NET 3.0?

There are some updates with .NET 3.0 concerning how to create and use add-ins for your own applications. I read about some "pipeline" you have to create for the communication between add-in and host-application but couldn't find further information about it. How would you made an add-in functionality in an application with .NET 3.0/3.5?...