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Requirements
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Windows Version
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The Ice Visual Studio Add-in is supported on:

 - Windows XP with Service Pack 3 
 - Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
 - Windows 7 
 - Windows 8
 - Windows Server 2008 Standard R2


Compilers
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Building the Ice Visual Studio Add-in requires:

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SDK

or

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 2010 SDK SP1

or

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 SDK
  

Visual Studio 2008 is only supported for building .NET Compact 
Framework applications.


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Compilation
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Unpack the archive. The sources are contained in the Ice-3.5.0\vsaddin
subdirectory.

1) In a Visual Studio command prompt, change to the distribution
   directory:

   > cd Ice-3.5.0\vsaddin

2) Open config\Make.rules.mak and review the comments that describe
   the settings you can modify.

3) Run nmake:

   > nmake /f Makefile.mak

The add-in DLL is placed into the Ice-3.5.0\vsaddin\bin directory.
The library name is

   IceVisualStudioAddin-VS2008.dll, IceVisualStudioAddin-VS2010.dll or
   IceVisualStudioAddin-VS2012.dll

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Installation
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Simply run "nmake install". This installs the Ice Visual Studio Add-in
in the directory specified by the "prefix" variable in
config\Make.rules.mak:

   > nmake /f Makefile.mak install


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Usage
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For usage instructions, please refer to the Ice manual:
 
  http://doc.zeroc.com/display/Ice/Visual+Studio+Add-in
