Where in the world is the DxCore Plugins directory gone?

Maybe it is just a dummy of the month post but…

I’ve installed the RC of Visual studio 2010 because in 2 weeks I am one of the speakers at a Developers conference and I have to speak of the new features of Visual Studio 2010 and C#.

When I develop things, even though they are just Demo projects I need to be comfortable with my environment, so I tried to understand how to be able to have my DxCore plugins also on the new Visual Studio.

I was using version 3.0.5 (if it works why do I have to upgrade?) but for Visual Studio 2010 I had to install the new Beta of version 10.0.0…

When I finished the installation I opened the Program Files folder and searched for the familiar Bin\Plugins folder, but it wasn’t there so I made it and copied the plugins into it but of course they are not working.

After  a few minutes of disheartenment. I started searching around, and finally I found the community site for plugins here: http://code.google.com/p/dxcorecommunityplugins/ and after some more searching around I found out that:

Since version 9.1.1 the plugin folder is: C:\Program Files\DevExpress 2009.1\IDETools\Community\Plugins\ that means: Installfolder\IDETools\Community\Plugins\.

Since version 9.1.3 the plugin folder is: My docs\DevExpress\IDE Tools\Community\PlugIns that means:

Current User Documents\DevExpress\IDE Tools\Community\PlugIns

To avoid my fellows developers to loose two hours just to install a plugin I decided to post it here, in the hope of a better search engine indexing.

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Print | posted on lunedì 8 marzo 2010 15.09

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# re: Where in the world is the DxCore Plugins directory gone?

Left by Rory Becker at 08/03/2010 15.22
Gravatar FWIW this location is a per user setting and can be altered. If you wish to be certain of the current location for the current user you should open the options page
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Follow these steps to get to the Settings options page:

1. From the DevExpress menu, select "Options...".
2. In the tree view on the left, navigate to this folder:

Core

3. Select the "Settings" options page.
This page level is Advanced, and will only be visible if the Level combo on the lower-left of the Options dialog is set to Advanced or Expert.
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On this page (barring changes in versions after 9.3) you should see several settings.

It is the 2nd of thses that you are looking for.

# re: Where in the world is the DxCore Plugins directory gone?

Left by Sabrina at 10/03/2010 15.30
Gravatar Sure, I found it out after writing this post, but not being so obvious where the option to set the directory is I think I'll let the post here with a comment:
Always remember to search if there is an Options/Settings/Personalize menu when you install an Addin :D
Thank You for the info :):):)

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