RC2 Available

I just uploaded a new release candidate this weekend, cleverly dubbed 'RC2'. This is the first v2 build that will actually install as visual studio plugin and work correctly without requiring the Visual Studio SDK. Be sure to read the README.txt that comes with the build. There were two tricks with fixing the problems with that last RC.

1. If you don't have the SDK you at least need the ProjectAggregator2.msi, which is a redistributable that comes with the SDK.
2. I had to get the version information in the registry keys of the installer up to date with the new assemblies. This version has a new PLK that I got off of the Microsoft VSIP website as well. I had been adjusting it in code but forgot the installer required some manual updates.

I plan on upgrading the installer project to a WIX projects as soon as possible. I don't like that the project aggregator redist. isn't part of the automatic install process and it's practically impossible to figure out how to do that with the old school install process. I'm not really looking forward to redoing the installer but I want a double click-next-next-next install process and anything less is unworthy.

There are a few known issues with this release, most of them are listed on the Issues List on codeplex, for example the oh so annoying error message about not being able to get references for your assembly despite the fact that your project will successfully build. I've never seen an error message that lets you build still before. But this is a known bug in the VS SDK, hopefully it'll be fixed on the next release. I guess I'll have to try to get this thing working with VS2008 sometimes soon as well.

Anyway download RC2 and let me know what you think! Someone start up another good thread on the forums!