Visual Studio 2010 Add In

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Hi,

I am trying to create an Add In for Visual Studio 2010. I have used the Wizard, and I have my Add In ready to develop, and when I press F5, a new instance of VS opens in which there is the expected smiley face icon for my Add In in the Tools menu. My question (which I don't seem to be able to find a straight answer to anywhere) is: how do I get this to appear in the Tools menu when I am using VS to develop other projects?

Any help or links to useful information would be very much appreciated.

Best wishes, Patrick

Posted 6-Sep-10 8:57am

Patrick Skelton

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Not Active · Answer 1 · 2010-09-06T09:24:00

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Visual Studio 2010 uses MEF so the prefered method is to create a Visual Studio Extention rather than an addin

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885119.aspx[^]

Posted 6-Sep-10 9:24am

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Patrick Skelton 7-Sep-10 4:30am

Thanks for the reply. That's a new one on me. I will certainly investigate later today.

Best wishes, Patrick