Creating Visio Add-Ins/Add-ons with Visual Studio 2005

posted by  hjwin (10)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Some of you have discovered that the Visio Add-in or Add-on Wizard does not work in Visual Studio 2005. Bill Morein, a Program Manager on the Visio team, posted a great article on his blog that describes how to use the Shared Add-in Wizard to create a Visio Add-in. If you want to create an Add-on, you'll have to use Visual Studio 2003 first, then upgrade your project to Visual Studio 2005.

The COM Shim Wizard described in