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I'm doing some visual studio extension development in Visual Studio 2010. It would be useful to debug while developing so I have it configured to open another instance of VS when debugger for F5 ( http://donovanbrown.com/post/How-to-debug-a-Visual-Studio-Extension.aspx ). This all works fine but is there a way to attach a debugger to an existing instance of VS2010, I have tried and the breakpoints aren't being hit. There are no errors but wondering if there is a way? I should add I do know how to attach to a debugger and I have used it before to attach to ASP.net code. Under Debug there is a

I have been following this post about how to build a VSIX project that will add some custom MVC project types: http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/custom-mvc-templates I also want to include some additional Nuget packages, so I was following this page from Nuget , but it seems to be for VS2010 and I'm working in 2012. I have the project building, and everything works peachy on my machine. The install works, the new project type appears, and when I create a new project of this type, everything works perfectly. However, when I send the installer to a coworker, things break. The installer

My question is very similar to this one , only that the answer and work-around are not working for me. Also I am in Visual Studio 2012. I have a VSPackage which is referencing another project, which is dependent on other dlls. Everytime time I run my package in debug I get an exception that the other dlls cannot be found. They are in the output directory, and they are signed. I tried referencing them directly by the VSPackage project to no avail. Thoughts? Mikhail Shcherbakov This problem exists because Visual Studio is not looking for assemblies in a folder of your extension if your extension

I'm using VSIX Manifest Designer under VS2013. I've added Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro product identifier and [10.0,13.0) version range to install targets. Despite that fact, I still don't see my VS2010 Professional as an available installation target: The source.extension.vsixmanifest file content is shown below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PackageManifest Version="2.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vsx-schema/2011" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vsx-schema-design/2011"> <Metadata> <Identity Id="ae98c9e5-8e14-4c92-b45a-c4fd24a49123" Version="1.0"

Visual Studio uses a private registry hive instead of "polluting" the system registry - typically found somewhere like this: C:\Users\Abx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_4b0ba1c0\privateregistry.bin [In order to determine installed extensions we need to look at the following key: Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_4b0ba1c0\ExtensionManager\EnabledExtensions ] What is the simplest way to load and access this file by key in C#? Ed Dore To manually review, you can use the regedit.exe application to load the privateregistry.bin file by doing the following: Launch RegEdit.exe Select the