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VSPackage - moving the assembly out of the GAC

Some tips when moving your VS Package assembly out of the GAC. First of all in order for Visual Studio to find the Package in it's new location you need to tell it where to find it, this is done in the Registry with the CodeBase key. This is done in the Registry at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{1237c0fa-4f6e-43c5-9ee4-a5938847c54a}] "Codebase"="C:\\Program Files\\MyCompany\\MyProduct\\MyPackageAssembly.dll" This is also the case for other classes which have GUIDs in your package. Use regasm with the /codebase switch to tell you which classes may need an additional registry entry.
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Visual Studio Extensibility

http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/learnerplates/extensibility Extending the Visual Studio IDE means adding custom functionality to the IDE, this could be custom TextEditors, Add Ins to the Tools menu, Writing to the Output Console, basically anything that will require you to add or write to any component in the Visual Studio IDE. Extending the Visual Studio IDE is not for the faint hearted. It is implemented with a Visual Studio Extensibility SDK downloadable from link 1 below. It's implemented using COM interfaces (not very nice). There are 5 points of contact for Extensibility issues 1. MSDN Visual Studio SDK homepage. 2. MSDN documentation. 3. MSDN Extensibility Forum . 4. Dr. Ex's Weblog . 5. MZ-Tools. There are also webcasts available from msdn . I recommend watching some of the webcasts especially the Managed Package Framework as the explain briefly how some of the Class Attributes work with RegPkg.exe and how important the GUIDs are. GUIDs The GUIDs are static and each con...
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