How to install manually vsix (2011) in Visual Studio 2012?

Question

I'm trying to install a vsix add-in in VS2012. However it looks like this add-in is available only for VS2010.

Is there any way to install it manually or to force it to work on 2012?

Thanks!

Answer 1

VSIX is just a zip-archive. Unpack it, locate the file extension.vsixmanifest. This is an XML file, open it. Locate the section SupportedProducts. It should look like the following:

    <SupportedProducts>
        <VisualStudio Version="10.0">
            <Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
            <Edition>Premium</Edition>
            <Edition>Pro</Edition>
        </VisualStudio>
    </SupportedProducts>

Copy-paste the VisualStudio section and update the Version attribute on the pasted fragment to 11.0.

Pack the contents back into a zip-archive. Make sure the archive have the VSIX extension. You're done.