VS 2010 Beta 2 commandbar-related bugs with fixes on the way

If you are testing your add-in with the recently released VS 2010 Beta 2 chances are that you have noticed that the new WPF-based commandbars, buttons and icons are not yet ready for prime time. It seems that my MZ-Tools add-in uses every possible method, property and technique offered by the Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars API so I am discovering lots of bugs (I have reported 15 so far) since I started testing with Beta 1. I reported these two ones before Beta 2 but the fixed will come in builds after Beta 2:

VS 2010 Beta 2 Bug: System.AccessViolationException attempting to create a temporary popup commandbar
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=500408

VS 2010 Beta 2 Bug: CommandBarButton.Style not honored, always Icon + Caption
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=500403

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 17:28 by carlosq
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