Hi,
I recently developed a vsix package, and put it up in the visual studio gallery for download (Bookmarks By The Numbers).
But when I download it through the extension manager in Visual Studio, it throws a NullReferenceException in the end, after installation, at the point where the extension managers dialog normally gets the focus, displaying a message that you should
restart Visual Studio (it doesn't show up after the exception).
Everything is installed fine, restarting Visual Studio to activate the package works without problems, as does the package and all of its functionality. No exceptions, nothing. I've tried running Visual Studio as an administrator, to see if that would help,
but to no avail.
The weird thing is that if I install the same package by simply double clicking the vsix package from the file system, no such exception occurs.
I'm at a loss at what's going on here. Copious amounts of tracing and logging don't show any strange behavior from within my package, and nothing indicates that there's something wrong with it.
Yet, since every other extension I download *doesn't* show this behavior, it *must* have something to do with my package specifically.
Does anyone have any clue?
[EDIT]
Sorry for omitting these rather convenient factoids initially... :
* The extension is for VS2012
* Developed in VS2012 Premium
* Reproducable in Win7 and Win8
Thanks in advance, and kind regards,
Willem van Rumpt