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Add-in: "An error occured and the wizard could not generate the project"

Howdy,

I get this error when I try to create a Visual Studio Add-In, in Visual Studio 2008, on the release (NOT release candidate) of Windows 7, from the MSDN-AA.

Any solution? I've tried using elevated priveleges, but it just yields a project which is incorrectly set up, and the files contain lots of ASP-style blocks, such as:

<%BEGIN VSCommand%>public class Connect : IDTExtensibility2, IDTCommandTarget<%END VSCommand%><%BEGIN NOT VSCommand%>public class Connect : IDTExtensibility2<%END NOT VSCommand%>

Thanks,

Ricky

Ricky26 Friday, October 16, 2009 3:10 PM

Hello,

Use Process Monitor (procmon) from SysInternals (now Technet), a free tool to trace registry and disk activity. Filter by devenv.exe process. See:

See:

HOWTO: Using the Process Monitor (ProcMon) tool to diagnose Visual Studio add-ins problems
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008024.aspx

FWIW, one cause for that error is that MSXML 6.0 is not installed or correctly installed. You can try to download and reinstall it.

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio: http://www.mztools.com. My blog about VS extensibility: http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/

Carlos Quintero - MVP 1 hour 31 minutes ago

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