Some time ago (1-2 years) I extended Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for some custom functionality. I chose to create an Add-In which hooks a command into the solution explorer's context menu, execute some command action and provide user feedback via the output view and error list view.
Recently, I had to update this behaviour, which was quickly done. However, the thing that took me the longest was to find out again how to debug the Add-In from Visual Studio 2010. So primarily for myself :) I want to document the required steps in the following.
How to debug Visual Studio Add-In
- Open your Add-In solution in Visual Studio 2010
- Right mouse click the Add-In project file (.prj) and mark it as "startup project"
- Open project properties for your Add-In project. On tab Debug in section Start external program select the devenv.exe from your Visual Studio install
Visual Studio 2010 project properties - In section command line arguments use /resetaddin yourAddin.addin to force complete (re)initialisation of your Add-In
- Copy your Add-In file (.AddIn) to Visual Studio 10's Add-In folder (i.e. c:\users\<localuser>\Documents\Visual Studio 10\adddins)
- In the copied addin file use the <Assembly> tag to point to the Debug directory of your Add-In project.
- Run debug command for your Add-In project from Visual Studio 2010
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