The Visual Studio Experimental Instance

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Working on some addins lately has taught me a few really useful tricks about debugging in Visual Studio. I’ll update this post over time.

The Experimental Instance

Very useful to know - the experimental instance loads its extensions from a special folder, and debugging extensions drops them there. The location is:

%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0Exp\Extensions\