I recently made a mistake when copying code from a Visual Studio extension course (all entirely my fault).
The course I was following was Customizing and Extending Visual Studio 2010 by Writing Code
But when I ran the demo (chapter 2), I received the following error:
When I reviewed the log I found the following exception details:
System.ComponentModel.Composition.CompositionContractMismatchException: Cannot cast the underlying exported value of type 'ToDoMarker.ToDoProvider.CreateTagger ContractName="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging.ITaggerProvider")' to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging.ITaggerProvider'.
Which meant pretty much nothing to me.
After some playing around, I realized it was a result of me putting the attributes in the wrong place within the ToDoProvider.cs.
Originally I added the attributes at the method level:
This was incorrect, it needed to be at the class level:
Hopefully by posting this, anyone else getting the same problem will find it through web search rather than trial and error ;)
Labels: C#, Extensions, Visual Studio
