Actually I was wrong - it's just that you can't run the VS installer plugin 
while you are located in some Maven Project that contains dotnet-module 
packaging.


Am 21.11.2011 um 12:26 schrieb Lars Corneliussen:

> Hi again,
> 
> the maven-vsinstaller-plugin is outdated. On my machine it even fails, 
> because it can't find a component descriptor for dotnet-module - vsinstaller 
> has it's own Components.xml in order to be able to run standalone.
> 
> If we want to keep it up to date, we would have to:
> 
> 1) Remove the Components.xml and instead create a package (Assembly-plugin) 
> in VisualStudio.Addin that contains needed DLLs and the .AddIn-file and then 
> reuse the same for both the wix-based Windows installer and 
> vsinstaller-plugin (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NPANDAY-293).
> 
> Then, on install, only override the bin-path for the DLL.
> 
> 2) Update the documentation of the plugin (usage).
> 
> 3) Update the documentation of how to debug NPanday Addin (because then the 
> developer can just use the vsinstaller) 
> 
> _
> Lars
> 
> 

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