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Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:07 PM

Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

I have been able to get some code from one of my colleagues and Extensibility support specialist, Ed Dore, that may help with the Toolbox control installation in Visual Studio 2005. I must remind you that the code that I post here comes with a Disclaimer
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:52 PM

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These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. The content of this site are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway. In addition, my thoughts and opinions often change, and as a weblog
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Friday, January 06, 2006 11:06 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples now available

The Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples are now available for download. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx Please feel free to download the samples and try them out. The samples consists of examples of how to use
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:01 PM

Failure to install Toolbox controls via ContentInstaller or Tools.InstallCommunityControls

If you have the SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP or SQL Server 2005 , then it is overwriting some registry key settings. The workaround for this is: Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{36839529-3AF3-47fa-8194-F4A3FA9F0ED7}
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 1:01 AM

Automatically qualifying class names

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to just go on coding without having to always first go and write the using or the Imports statement in C# or VB or J# or how about just fully qualifying the class names in place by using a keyboard shortcut. Well
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:53 AM

Programmatically setting TaskList view

In Visual Studio 2005, any Task that is added from an Add-in or a Macro using the TaskList automation object appears under the ‘Add-ins and Macros’ provider drop down in the TaskList. Currently there is no direct way, using the Automation Object Model,
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Monday, October 17, 2005 5:58 PM

Recompiling Add-in resources with every build

In the Displaying custom bitmap for VS add-in command button from satellite DLL , Huizhong showed how to create a Managed Satellite dll. The steps for creating the Satellite dll need to be performed everytime your make a change to the resources. And it
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:27 PM

Community Content Installer PowerToys

Craig Skibo has just posted an updated version of the Community Content Installer Power Toys. These are tools that will help you build, uninstall community content. If you haven't yet then give it a try. The download is available at http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/CCIPowerToy
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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:03 AM

Packaging Add-ins and Toolbox Controls for use with Visual Studio Content Installer

The Visual Studio Content Installer allows users to install community content such as add-ins, toolbox controls etc. The Visual Studio Content Installer uses a Visual Studio Installer (VSI) file which contains the content to install. Each VSI file contains
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:52 AM

Installing Managed ToolBox Controls Programmatically

In the past with Visual Studio 2003, it was possible to programmatically add .Net or Managed toolbox controls using the DTE. With Visual Studio 2005 this method of programmatically adding the controls has been deprecated in favor of using one of the following
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Monday, October 03, 2005 8:01 PM

About Me

I am a member of the Visual Studio Extensibility Team and mainly responsible for the quality of the Automation Object Model in addition to Add-ins, Macros and anything else related to extensibility. Other things that interest me and I help drive in the
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