Carlos Quintero (Microsoft MVP) blog

Visual Studio Extensibility: macros, add-ins, SDK packages

MZ-Tools Articles Series (update) INFO: Default .AddIn file locations for Visual Studio add-ins

I have updated the article that I wrote back in January about default folders to place .AddIn registration files for add-ins to include actual examples for Windows Vista since the original article only showed Windows XP examples. I have also provided better information about how to get the actual folder names correctly.

Overall the naming of Windows Vista folders is perfect because:

1) It doesn't localize folder names

2) It uses meaningful names such as:

- "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming" while Windows XP used "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data" (how do you remember that it is roaming?)

- "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local" while Wndows XP used "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data"

but because of backwards compatibily with Windows XP it uses junction points and all this folders stuff is really a mess. Anyway, the updated article:

INFO: Default .AddIn file locations for Visual Studio add-ins
http://www.mztools.com/Articles/2008/MZ2008001.aspx

Published Tue, Sep 2 2008 16:35 by carlosq

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# Visual Studio Links #71@ Sunday, September 07, 2008 10:04 AM

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