Visual Studio Add-in - How do I create an installer?
I created a Visual Studio add-in as part of a project that I am working on to consume web services.
When I created a new add-in project in visual studio, it generated all the necessary code and installed a blank add-in on my computer (I guess).
Since this is a large project, we use svn to manage the codebase, and once I did some of the work on the add-in, I committed it and then checked it out on another machine and tried to run it.
However, on another PC, when I run the add-in in debug mode, the tools entry for the add-in is missing and I cannot start the add-in.
Am I correct in assuming that when I created the project on another PC, it also installed the plugin? And does that mean I will need to create an installer for any other PCs I want to use?
Obviously, at some point I intend to make an installer anyway, but not before the add-on is complete.
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Ok so I fixed my problem.
after doing some searches on another issue, I came across an answer to the installer question.
When the visual studio add-in wizard creates an empty add-in, it creates two xml files with the .Addin extension.
One is saved locally along with your project, the other is copied to whatever path a copy of visual studio uses for its add-in folder.
So, having copied the .addin file to the correct location on my other computer, I can now run Addin in both locations.
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