Any AddIn not loading

I'm trying to get at developping a small addin for VS2005 but I can't get it (or any other addin from msdn samples or somewhere else on the web) to load.

I tried launching/debugging the FileNav sample that comes from MSDN. I set it up correctly (so the .addin/.dll get outputed to <My Document>\Visual Studio 2005\Addin) and I launch it correctly using msdev.exe with the appropriate command line option. However, the OnConnection method never gets invoked and, as you would expect, the addin doesn't appear in the add-in manager.

I also tried installing other addins from the web (CoolCommands v3 for example) and they don't launch in VS for me, but they do for other coworkers.

I think there might be something wrong with my setup but before reinstalling everything, I was wondering if there was anything I could try (regkey setting, ini file, anything). I tried doing a /ResetSettings on my environment but that didn't do anything. I know that at some point I once erased the entire content of the ...\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 folder as I was having big problems (the IDE wasn't responding to the keyboard anymore and doing this, did the trick) and that might be the culprit

Thanks for any info you can provide

Francis

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thee
You are not using an Express SKU, by chance
ChristopherBrandt
No, full featured VS2005 Professional Edition. Other collegues have exactly the same version installed and they're able to load addins.
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given this works on other machines and given the things you have done to your install, I think a reinstall is required.
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