Add-in failed to load on second machine

[CleverCoder]

I noticed that my second developer machine is attempting to load the VS addin that has been placed on my home directory on a network share. I get an error meesage giving me the option to remove the adding, which seems to indicate that the DLL would be renamed. This is not desirable. Can you change the installer to install the addin on the local machine? if it would work from my shared home directory, that would be okay, but it doesn't work.

The error is:

The Add-in '.NET Reflector' failed to load or caused an exception.
Would you like to remove this Add-in?
If you choose yes, the file it was loaded from, "\\<server>\<path to home dir>\Visual Studio 2008\Addins\RedGate.Reflector.Addin', will be renamed.
Error message: The system cannot find the file specified.
Error number: 80070002

Thanks,
-Sean

[Alex.Davies]

We've deliberately kept the add-in installation per-user to avoid needing admin access to the machine.

You should be able to install the add-in per-machine instead. Do this by moving the .addin file to:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins

I don't know how multiple versions of Visual Studio will deal with that though.

Hope that helps,
_________________
Alex
Developer,
Red Gate .NET Tools