Manual Installation

Manual installation would require the installation of the NPanday repository which can be downloaded from the NPanday site (click the Repository link and accept the license agreement).

  1. Edit the settings.xml file so it points to the repository that contains the NPanday plugins. The settings.xml file is typically found at: C:/Documents and Settings/[user_home]/.m2 or in [M2_HOME]/conf .
  2. Set your PATH environment variable as explained in the Pre-requisites section. For example:

    PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5; C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\SDK\v3.5\bin; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.4.3\bin

  3. Run the maven-vsinstaller-plugin to resolve (and download if needed) all of NPanday's dependencies and create the Visual Studio add-in file in the user's home directory. Run the maven-vsinstaller-plugin from any directory:

    mvn npanday.plugin:maven-vsinstaller-plugin:[version]:install

    Note: Close the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) before installing maven-vsinstaller-plugin.

  4. This creates the NPanday .NET Build Tool add-in and puts it into your home directory. When you start Visual Studio it will be available for use. After running the maven-vsinstaller-plugin the add-in will be located here:

    C:\Documents and Settings\[user_home]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins\NPanday.VisualStudio.AddIn