Disable Visual Studio plugins

creaseypaul · Post by **creaseypaul** » Mon 10 Oct 2011 16:39

Is it possible to disable the Entity developer/LinqConnect plugins without uninstalling them? They don't appear in the Add-in manager.

My visual studio is quite unstable enough as it is on my rubbish laptop so i'd like to be able to remove them when they aren't in use.

StanislavK · Post by **StanislavK** » Wed 12 Oct 2011 10:34

Edit: Removed an answer since it was to another post.

creaseypaul · Post by **creaseypaul** » Wed 12 Oct 2011 13:38

wrong thread! Would love and answer to my question though

StanislavK · Post by **StanislavK** » Wed 12 Oct 2011 16:14

Sorry for that.

LinqConnect and Entity Developer are integrated into Visual Studio as packages, not as add-ins:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb187343.aspx
There is no standard manager for enabling/disabling Visual Studio packages.

As a workaround, you can reinstall LinqConnect without integrating it into Visual Studio, and work with the stand-alone version of Entity Developer.