Latest Contributions by OlwynBruce

Process.Start("path\to\mxd") totally worked! Thank you very much!!! ... View more

So the Final Solution for me was to completely nuke and pave my system. Apparently, I'm not the only one in our GIS world here that is having major problems with add-ins - this isn't the first time this has happened. It makes me pretty leary about wanting to develop with them, if it's going to turf my system! It's probably some deeply buried setting but - like anyone - I don't have the time to futz around with it. ESRI - any suggestions here? Any settings I can check or advice to pass on here? Cheers, Olwyn ... View more

HI Jeff, Perfect - I'm going to try that first and then, if that fails, do a COMPLETE uninstall/reinstall of ArcMap, VS2008 & the SDK. I was just over at my co-workers and his system is the same as mine - his worked straight off! So, clearly, there's something wrong on my end. I'll post the results...thank you once again for all the help. Cheers, Olwyn ... View more

Hi Jeff, I really appreciate your help on this. I'm going to ask a co-worker of mine to install the software and do parts 3 & 4 as well - maybe it's some weird, obscure setting on my system. We'll see 😉 I uninstalled/reinstalled VS2008 and the SDK late yesterday so the solution I've attached was built in this new "clean" install. Still the same behavior (greyed out button after click, with no message box). Any tips would be terrific. Cheers, Olwyn ... View more

Hi Jeff, I looked at that thread - lots of good information! However, I seem to still be having problems. I went back to the beginning and followed your tutorial at gis.qtools.com (VBA to C add-in). My system is: Windows 7, 64-bit Visual C# Express 2008 SP1 ArcMap 10.0 SP2 (ArcInfo) I did parts 3 & 4. I'm able to make a toolbar with a button but nothing happens when I click on it (it just goes grey). Here's the code from config.esriaddinx: <ESRI.Configuration xmlns="http://schemas.esri.com/Desktop/AddIns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">   <Name>CSTutorial</Name>   <AddInID>{4e2c325a-27f5-4d4b-b2a0-266819364cc2}</AddInID>   <Description>C# tutorial</Description>   <Version>1.0</Version>   <Image>Images\CSTutorial.png</Image>   <Author>jobruce</Author>   <Company>YGS</Company>   <Date>7/13/2011</Date>   <Targets>     <Target name="Desktop" version="10.0" />   </Targets>   <AddIn language="CLR" library="CSTutorial.dll" namespace="CSTutorial">     <ArcMap>       <Commands>         <Button id="YGS_CSTutorial_StaggerOffsetButton" class="StaggerOffsetButton" message="Stagger Offset: Offsets all feature in selected layer by a user-specified stagger amount on either side of the original position. Start an edit session before use." caption="Stagger Offset Features" tip="Stagger Offset Features: Offsets all features in selected layer." category="Add-In Controls" image="Images\StaggerOffsetButton.png" />       </Commands>       <Toolbars>         <Toolbar id="YGS_CSTutorial_CS_Toolbar" caption="CS_Toolbar" showInitially="true">           <Items>             <Button refID="YGS_CSTutorial_StaggerOffsetButton" />           </Items>         </Toolbar>       </Toolbars>     </ArcMap>   </AddIn> </ESRI.Configuration> Here's the code from StaggerOffsetButton.cs: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace CSTutorial {     public class StaggerOffsetButton : ESRI.ArcGIS.Desktop.AddIns.Button     {         public StaggerOffsetButton()         {         }         protected override void OnClick()         {             //             //  TODO: Sample code showing how to access button host             //             ArcMap.Application.CurrentTool = null;             MessageBox.Show("Hello world");         }         protected override void OnUpdate()         {             Enabled = ArcMap.Application != null;         }     } } Any suggestions? I'd really like to start customizing with .NET but having zero luck so far. Olwyn ... View more

Hi Sean, There is no .tlb file. How do I generate one using Visual Studio Express 2008? Cheers, Olwyn ... View more