Resource not found for VS addin projects

Question

ArgumentException crossed a native/managed boundary. Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE.ResourceLoader.GetString

"Cannot find the requested resource."

I've tried to create a several different Addin's and VSIX projects both with and without the experimental IDE. All give me this error when trying to debug. These were all projects created from the templates without being modified. Not sure why simple default projects wont' work.

Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way. I'd like to be able to create a simple VS extension and debug it. I have no idea what resource it's trying to load.

 

Any ideas how I can actually get to work on writing a VS extension?

 

 

Answer 1

It seems you can continue past the errors and eventually get to the debugger. Not pretty but at least I can debug.

 

 

Answer 2

Sounds like you have 'Break when an exception crosses AppDomain or managed/native boundaries' set in your Debug->Options and VS is, well behaving like it should when that setting is toggled on.  I believe it is off by default.

Ryan

Answer 3

Thanks, that seemed to be it.

 

Answer 4

Thank you very much. Was driving me crazy too!

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