Summary
The Electric Cloud Visual Studio IDE Add-in fails to load when another add-in is installed.
Either a dialog is displayed, which indicates the add-in has thrown an exception
or the exception is caught and an error message is displayed, but the Electric Cloud menu and toolbar are incomplete:
Visual Studio contains a bug where add-ins that implement a global tools option page will fail if another add-in is installed in the ‘user application data’ area rather than the ‘all users’ application data area.
Solution
Either uninstall the other add-in, reinstall it for ‘all users’ (if available), or manually move its configuration files.
For example, a customer experienced this issue when using ‘NiftyPerforce’ add-in. NiftyPerforce stores its setup files in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins. It does not have an option to install for ‘all users’ and uninstalling it was not acceptable.
Moving the “.AddIn” file in the previous directory to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins) allowed both add-ins to work.
Important notes:
1. The “.Addin” file will reference a .DLL that may have a relative or absolute path.
<Assembly>..\OtherAddIn.dll</Assembly>
You must either correct the path, or move the referenced file to allow the other add-in to continue working. In NiftyPerforce’s case, the .DLL was in the current directory, so the DLL had to be moved, too.
2. When uninstalling the other add-in, ensure that any file moves or changes are reverted before uninstalling the add-in.
3. Close Visual Studio when making any changes to the addin directories.
This Visual Studio issue can also occur with early versions of the ElectricCommander Visual Studio IDE Add-in. In this case, upgrade to v1.5 or higher.
Applies to
- Product versions: All
- OS versions: Windows
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