First of all, if these add-ins are .NET assemblies, you can always get their path using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, among a few similar ways. To set the path in the install, though, set the registry value to [INSTALLDIR] (more than likely, if all your assemblies go into the same installation directory). There are much better ways but the VS.NET Windows Installer project doesn't make them possible without using a tool like Orca (from the Windows Installer SDK) and modifying the MSI package after it's compiled, which also requires some knowledge about MSI packages. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Hi, thats exactly what i figured out i few days before. I developed a filebrowser. And it also contains a dialog for copying files and it shows the progress. Look to class copydialog of the file clipboard.cs. Download from www.slenders.be It also contains examples for moving files, copying folders, etc. Just take a look Jonathan Slenders

First of all create an ATL/COM project in vc. and in workspace viewer add an interface to it. then add a method to the interface. then write the code behind the method( you cane copy and paste the code from your C++ code!) It needs a bit hard work;) Kamyar Souri Booria CAD/CAM Systems www.booria.com

You mean an article that tells you what APIs to P/Invoke in order to split an AVI into frames when you want to split an AVI into frames isn't helpful? Hmm, interesting. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

VirtualDub is a stand alone application and therefore does not meet my needs. My whole purpose is to take a convoluted process with external programs being used and tie them into one easy interface. After spending all night working on it, the components from NCTSoft do not synch up nicely. Their audio editing component is nice. and their video components do what they were intended for, but it is nigh-on impossible to get them to synch without a slight delay between the two. Anyone know of another video editing component? I have 20 days to build this project (rediculous, yes?) And therefore would MUCH rather not have to build something from scratch. --Tony Archer "I can build it good, fast and cheap. Pick any two."

The best object model documentation is actually in the programming help that is not installed by default (with a typical installation) of Office. Re-run set and choose the programming help files. MSDN Online doesn't have much for some reason. When your control is created, the context in which it's created is the ApplicationClass as it's known in the interop assembly for PowerPoint (one word, BTW). The add-in object model should already expose a way to get the running instance, such as an Application property. This is very common throughout the object model. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Thank you. Modifying the form's graphic will do fine for my purposes. Just didn't want it to look too crappy :) --Tony Archer "I can build it good, fast and cheap. Pick any two."

Files like that should actually be installed into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), though, since they are common to many applications (potentially). The GAC also provides versioning support if a new one is ever installed, so that your application will continue to use the older version (since the new one isn't just copied over it - known as DLL hell) unless you used a publisher policy or assemblyBinding section in the .config file. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Tony, How are you displaying the translations? Some ASP.NET controls will prepend a prefix to your DefID, so check the View Source to be sure you're looking for the right thing. Marcie http://www.codeproject.com