All,
I've taken on fixing BUG4337: Add reference dialog does not list VSTO
add-in projects (http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4337/). I've discovered the
problem and wanted confirmation that my plan for fixing it is something
that the team approves of.
To explain the problem: For a project system to be referenced via the Add
Reference dialog, the custom project type must support
"VSHPROPID_ShowProjInSolutionPage." In our case, I don't think VSTO
projects support this property so it's not showing up in the Add Reference
box. This is not unique to Votive; the VSTO project won't show up in the
dialog if you add a reference on a C# project either.
There may be a potential fix described at
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/pt-BR/90e39196-488d-46f8-a11b-785764939140/filtering-the-project-list-in-add-reference-dialog?forum=vsxbut
I have no idea if that works for projects which don't have
VSHPROPID_ShowProjInSolutionPage supported through the project system. One
problem of the potential fix is that we'd be turning on the ability for a
given project to be referenced by ANY project type from the Add Reference
dialog box, not just Wix. Since we don't want that, we might be able to
turn the setting on and off when opening and closing the dialog box on a
Wix project respectively. That seems potentially error-prone but it might
work.
Before I start working on this change, I'd like to know how others feel
about this idea. Does this seem like a reasonable design decision or should
we start from scratch and go in some other direction?
Eric
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