Making Add-in development easier

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

One complaint that we have received about creating Add-ins is about the .addin file. Specifically, why are there two of them? If you move the project file, check into source code control, etc. then the file no longer works or disappears. To make this easier I wrote a small tool found at http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/VSExtTools under the name .addin Helper. When added as a build rule, it will open the .addin file, modify the path to point to the just built DLL, then save it under the My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Add