{"id":36037,"date":"2008-02-15T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/andrewarnottms\/2008\/02\/15\/why-your-visual-studio-add-in-fails-to-load-with-error-0x80004005\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T22:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:09:45","slug":"why-your-visual-studio-add-in-fails-to-load-with-error-0x80004005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/why-your-visual-studio-add-in-fails-to-load-with-error-0x80004005\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your Visual Studio add-in fails to load with error 0x80004005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Visual Studio add-ins gives you the power to do some impressive things within the IDE to enhance your productivity.&nbsp; Unfortunately getting your add-in to load into Visual Studio can sometimes be a pain.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s just a tip you should know about the .AddIn file that Visual Studio generates for you.<\/p>\n<p>The path you provide to the add-in assembly .dll should be relative to the location of the .AddIn file itself.&nbsp; Absolute paths do not work.&nbsp; If you try using one, you get an unhelpful error dialog that mentions error code 0x80004005.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we can get some more useful error messages in future versions of Visual Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Visual Studio add-ins gives you the power to do some impressive things within the IDE to enhance your productivity.&nbsp; Unfortunately getting your add-in to load into Visual Studio can sometimes be a pain.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s just a tip you should know about the .AddIn file that Visual Studio generates for you. The path you provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4617,46],"class_list":["post-36037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-andarno","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Writing Visual Studio add-ins gives you the power to do some impressive things within the IDE to enhance your productivity.&nbsp; Unfortunately getting your add-in to load into Visual Studio can sometimes be a pain.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s just a tip you should know about the .AddIn file that Visual Studio generates for you. The path you provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}