No. This is a very serious design flaw in C++. (It gets worse. Say you created a function of the same name in the inherited class, but very slightly changed one of the parameters. You're screwed.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

The deployment project type in Visual Studio .NET is a pretty simple wrapper around the core Windows Installer technology. If you don't need anything complicated, it's great. Otherwise, look at some other tool that wraps Windows Installer, such as a newer version of InstallShield or Wise for Windows Installer[^]. It's the same install engine, in the end, but these tools give you far more power than the VS.NET deployment project does. This power is at the expense of simplicity.

I belive lot of other apis like this one is OS dependened. Tech.Support : Mam, is your pc running under windows? Customer : No actually its close to the main door.

hy, it didtn helped me a lot, because i need to run c++ code BEFORE i run the setup steps. i didnt found out how to do this!

first of all u have to modify the bitmap's header! I'm not sure about what byte is the alpha one, but i think it was the first one! Don't try it, just do it! ;-)

the code looks very complicated to me, isnt there a simpler solution for making a bitmap transparent?? i cant use this code!

maby the key is alwo in this function: (from the customize toolbar sample) void CMainFrame::OnViewXpmode() { xtAfxData.bXPMode = !xtAfxData.bXPMode; RedrawWindow( NULL, NULL, RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_UPDATENOW | RDW_ERASE | RDW_ALLCHILDREN ); } unfortunately there is nothing like a xtAfxData.bOfice2003 flag ... any ideas?

very cool! now it works! thanx a lot!

oky, thanx a lot!

Look at sources of published addo-on's on codeproject.... Code Teamplate Add-on can solve 2 issues to you... Also look at SmartHelp addon sources... many good ideas and finished classes ready to use... Good Luck Alex Kucherenko

It would help if we knew what this DTE object is. More importantly, search for the type-library. Once you find it, you can use the Class Wizard/Automation tab to add a wrapper class for it which you can then use in your code. Regards, Alvaro All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. -- Mark Twain

have you checked out this and this?. While the first shows you how to implement IDTExtensibility2 in your addin, the next allows simple text addition to visualstudio via DTE. Hush,hush... thought I heard you call my name now. Kula Shaker. Amit Dey Latest articles at CP - PocketPC New menu Office addin