Deployment of Visual Studio Add-in in VS 2012

Question

I have created Visual studio add-in successfully.But I am confused to deploy this addin in another computers.I have go throgh the stackoverflow answers.But I did not get clear c

Answer 1

Deploying an add-in requires to copy the add-in dll(s) to some folder and create a XML .AddIn file in a predefined folder where VS can locate it where a entry of the XML file points to the add-in assembly.

For articles about the prefedined folders for .AddIn files and about creating a setup see the "Articles about installing and uninstalling" section of my web site:

http://www.visualstudioextensibility.com/articles/add-ins/

To troubleshoot problems loading add-ins see my article:

HOWTO: Troubleshooting Visual Studio and Office add-ins

Visual Studio is a 32-bit executable, so the add-in dll and dependencies must be 32-bit.

Answer 2

You just need to copy YourAddIn.dll and YourAddIn.AddIn files to "c:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Addins\" folder on another computer. To create an installer you can start with Wix Template For VS2012 Addin Project.