How do I make my VSIX file compatible with both VS11 and VS2010?

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How can I make my VSIX file compatible with both Visual Studio 11 and Visual Studio 2010? I'm handing my VSIX file along with all its dependencies to a friend of mine, and when he opens it, he's getting the error "The extension manifest is invalid".

When I open it on my machine (the same machine that built the extension) it works just fine.

What do I do here?

Here is the best answer I found on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22688894/27194 — Patrick from NDepend team, Jun 20 '14 at 09:51

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '12 at 05:24

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You need to build your extension using VS 2010 and the VS 2010 SDK to support both VS10 and VS11. In your VSIXManifest, you should add the following under <SupportedProducts>:

<VisualStudio Version="11.0">
  <Edition>Pro</Edition>
</VisualStudio>

answered Apr 24 '12 at 05:24

Aaron Marten

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How do I make my VSIX file compatible with both VS11 and VS2010?

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