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Change the name of TaggerProvider and the code fails to work

I cloned https://github.com/microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples, the project Intra-text_Adornment/C# works perfectly.

Then I changed the name of ColorAdornmentTaggerProvider to CCAdornmentTaggerProvider, then run the project. The extension doesn't work any more.

My change is https://github.com/gqqnbig/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples/commit/575d74300fc22b61d694f0c7f6a05e71c7fd79fe

How do I fix it?

Solution

  • I find another way to fix it. I have to uninstall my extension from the experimental instance, or delete folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_5c91ae55Exp\Extensions.

    My guess is that since ColorAdornmentTaggerProvider has the Export attribute, when VS is installing the extension, VS remembers the class name, ContentType, TagType, and sort of things. When I rename the class to CCAdornmentTaggerProvider, the extension didn't get reinstalled, the experimental instance is still looking for ColorAdornmentTaggerProvider, but cannot find it.