title: Visual Studio 2012 Add-In - How to share/publish/deploy it?
body: <p>I have been working on a Visual Studio solution template to be used internally and have been developing this in a Visual Studio 2012 Addin.</p>
  
  <p>The addin is added to the tools menu of Visual Studio and all works fine.</p>
  
  <p>The only question now is, how can I share this tool between my team?</p>
  
  <p>I have added a VSIX project, which in turn references the Solution Template project (added as an asset) but will this alone do it?</p>
  
  <p>I can't see how installing the VSIX I created is manually going to add my add-in to the Visual Studio Tools window.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone offer any advice as to how I can do this or is there some other way to deploy/publish a Visual Studio addin?</p>
  
  <p>I have found a <a href="http://fascinatedwithsoftware.com/blog/post/2012/12/06/How-to-Create-a-Visual-Studio-2012-Project-Template-Part-4-VSIX-Deployment.aspx" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a> which is similar, but I just want to use the VSIX to install my add-in to Visual Studio tools menu, rather than add it as a project template. I have looked around and there doesn't seem to be much information on how to deploy your addin.</p>