Adding an AddIns.Button to an Add-In Menu

Question

I know the title sounds unwieldy but as I am beginning convert an existing COM interface to Add-Ins, I am having trouble adding a button to a root menu.

I have an AddIn.Button that is used both as a button (in Add-In Controls) and an item in a rootmenu. The button works but when I add the namespace.classname to the .esriaddinx (as a Button refID="...", I get the modifier "static' and "internal" errors from the config.designer.cs. How do I reference this addin.button in the rootmenu so it can build the designer correctly?

Answer 1

I did this successfully: Opened VS2010, choose to create a new Arcmap Add-in project. Edited the xml by hand to look like this:

<ESRI.Configuration xmlns="http://schemas.esri.com/Desktop/AddIns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Name>ArcMapAddin1</Name>
  <AddInID>{1a65703b-71ec-43e0-901c-d9efbb52da7b}</AddInID>
  <Description>Type in a description for this Add-in.</Description>
  <Version>1.0</Version>
  <Image>Images\ArcMapAddin1.png</Image>
  <Author>Kirk</Author>
  <Company>AmberGIS</Company>
  <Date>4/11/2011</Date>
  <Targets>
    <Target name="Desktop" version="10.0" />
  </Targets>
  <AddIn language="CLR" library="ArcMapAddin1.dll" namespace="ArcMapAddin1">
    <ArcMap>
      <Menus>
        <Menu isRootMenu="true" id="MyRootMenu" caption="RootMenu">
          <Items>
            <Button refID="AmberGIS_ArcMapAddin1_Button1"/>
          </Items>
        </Menu>
      </Menus>
      <Commands>
        <Button id="AmberGIS_ArcMapAddin1_Button1" class="Button1" message="Add-in command generated by Visual Studio project wizard." caption="My Button" tip="Add-in command tooltip." category="Add-In Controls" image="Images\Button1.png" />
      </Commands>
    </ArcMap>
  </AddIn>
</ESRI.Configuration>

I then ran in debug mode, which brought up arcmap. Under Customize>Customize Mode, I went to Commands tab and was able to drag and drop RootMenu onto the main menu.

After closing, it was still there.