Displaying custom bitmap for VS add-in command button from satellite DLL

posted by  mneon (8)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Add-ins can get resources such as strings, icons, and bitmaps from satellite DLLs which separates resources from your add-in. The first time I tried to get add-in resources from its satellite DLL, I easily find out how to do it for resources like strings and icons. But for bitmaps, it took me really a long time to figure out (for both native & managed add-ins). There indeed are some tricky steps that are hard to find out, so I thought it would be really good to blog it.

In previous verions of VS (2002 & 2003), add-ins used reg key values "SatelliteDllName" and "SatelliteDllPa