Add the plugin developed in VS 2008 to the VS 2003 IDE

Hi,

I have created a visual studio plugin using Visual Studio 2008 and C#. I was sucessful in adding this plugin to the VS IDE 2008. The steps that I followe was .....
1) Create a folder named Addin ina dir or a folder.
2) Add the .Addin file to the Addin folder.
3) Modify the .Addin file.... Edit the assembly tag with the path where the .dll file of the plugin is kept.
4) make a registry entry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders . Under the LookInFolders make a string value entry. this entry will be the path of the Addin folder where your .addin file is kept. Don't provide any value to it.
5) When you'll open the VS 2008 the plugin will be reflected.

My problem statement is I want to add the same plugin in Visual Studio 2003 IDE. But I am not finding any way or registry entries where I can add this plugin path.

A quick help will be appriciated.

Thanks In Advance.

Add-in Express for VSTO is an extension of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office designed for creating application-level add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, InfoPath, and Visio. The main destination of Add-in Express is to provide you, a VSTO developer, with a solution that allows you to create powerful Microsoft Office plug-ins with far less coding than you have to do now.

Add-in Express for VSTO is developed in Visual C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) and Visual C# on Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO 2005 SE, and VSTO 2008 and VSTO 2010).

Visual designers instead of routine coding

Add-in Express offers a lot of tricks to VSTO developers, but its main feature is visual designers that give you the following features that VSTO lacks:

Design-time support of custom Ribbon tabs, Microsoft Office menu, Quick Access Toolbar, command bars and commandbar controls, menu items, context menu items.
Adding Microsoft Outlook options page and folder property pages at design-time.
Trapping any built-in controls on Microsoft Office toolbars and ribbons, and handling them in your own way instead of the standard one.
Version-independent event processing.
Context-sensitive binding of your toolbars or their separate controls.
Determining keyboard shortcut processing settings at design-time.
Adding Action Panes in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word 2003 and custom Task Panes in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 at design time.

The crucial thing is that you concentrate on your applied code that automates and handles Microsoft Office objects and solves your applied task.

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Hemant Kumar15y ago
Add-in Express for VSTO is an extension of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office designed for creating application-level add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, InfoPath, and Visio. The main destination of Add-in Express is to provide you, a VSTO developer, with a solution that allows you to create powerful Microsoft Office plug-ins with far less coding than you have to do now.
Add-in Express for VSTO is developed in Visual C# and directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) and Visual C# on Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO 2005 SE, and VSTO 2008 and VSTO 2010).
Visual designers instead of routine coding
Add-in Express offers a lot of tricks to VSTO developers, but its main feature is visual designers that give you the following features that VSTO lacks:
Design-time support of custom Ribbon tabs, Microsoft Office menu, Quick Access Toolbar, command bars and commandbar controls, menu items, context menu items.
Adding Microsoft Outlook options page and folder property pages at design-time.
Trapping any built-in controls on Microsoft Office toolbars and ribbons, and handling them in your own way instead of the standard one.
Version-independent event processing.
Context-sensitive binding of your toolbars or their separate controls.
Determining keyboard shortcut processing settings at design-time.
Adding Action Panes in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word 2003 and custom Task Panes in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 at design time.
The crucial thing is that you concentrate on your applied code that automates and handles Microsoft Office objects and solves your applied task.