Let’s start with the obvious. Adding Visual Studio AddIns. First, open your My Documents/Visual Studio folder (for me, it’s “C:\Users\Evan\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\”). If you don’t see a folder here named “AddIns,” go ahead and create it. Now, when you’re adding a new AddIn to Visual Studio, all you’ll have to do (in most cases) is this: drop the .AddIn and .dll files into the AddIns folder.
So, adding the Chirpy Zippy to visual studio is simple:
1. Unzip ZippyChirp.zip.
2. Drag Zippy.Chirp.Addin, and all of Zippy’s .dlls into your AddIns folder thusly:
Zippy's Pen
3. Open a new instance of Visual Studio. Click Tools > AddIn Manager.
4. Make sure Zippy.Chirp is selected to run. You should only have to do this once:
Select The Zippy
5. The Joys of Zippy are yours forever.
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[...] AddIns, or if you just need a little help installing Chirpy Zippy, feel free to check out the instructions page. It shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes to set Zippy [...]
I have some difficulties installing this.
Zippy doesn’t show up in the Add-in manager. Do you have a clue why?
I’ve followed your instructions, checked that the add-ins path is correct and everything. I’m running VS 2010 on win 7.
Martin– sorry for the issue, friend.
Since the AddIn was created in VS08, I think that some people are having issues using it in VS10–this issue has also been discussed on Wayne’s blog. I’ll try to recreate the problems in VS10 and get you a solution that actually works.
Cheers,
E
[...] If you’re old fashioned, you’re still more than welcome to install Chirpy using the steps detailed in this post. [...]
I’m not very familiar with add-ins, but do you have any suggestions on how I might use chirpy.zippy with msbuild?
Thanks!
Brant
Hey Bryant,
I think you might be looking for something more like what Karl Seguin talks about here:
http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2008/12/29/compressing-js-files-as-part-of-your-build-process.aspx
Hope this helps. If not, let me know!
Cheers,
Evan
After some further research, I think combining and minifying js/css at runtime meets my needs of trying to keep the build environment clean. The SquishIt project looks promising:
http://www.codethinked.com/post/2010/05/26/SquishIt-The-Friendly-ASPNET-JavaScript-and-CSS-Squisher.aspx
Thank-you Evan for getting me to think about the problem differently.
Cheers,
Brant