---
title: "Beware of Vs.Net plugins and wizards bearing gifts"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/30/beware-of-vsnet-plugins-and-wizards-bearing-gifts.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/30/beware-of-vsnet-plugins-and-wizards-bearing-gifts.html"
published: "2004-04-30T20:10:00"
updated: "2004-04-30T20:10:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This might be a good idea to know if you're a judge on the Add-in contest: --------------------- I installed some Visual Studio.Net 2003 plug-ins a while back. Didn't find them very useful so I decided to uninstall. Oh…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Beware of Vs.Net plugins and wizards bearing gifts

By Roy Osherove April 30, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 30, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

This might be a good idea to know if you're a judge on the Add-in contest:

\---------------------

_I  installed some Visual Studio.Net 2003 plug-ins a while back. Didn't find them very useful so I decided to uninstall._

_Oh sh!te..._

_All of the sudden when I try and add a new Windows Form Class, I get an **“Could not run the ".....vsz" wizard."** error. Many posts that I've Googled to suggest a “Repair” of Visual Studio. No problem with that I guess, except that I can't waste a day installing Visual Studio again._

_Luckily I found the_ [_solution_](http://www.petedavis.net/dotnet_articles/wizardfix.html)_..._ 

_\[via [Willem](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/willemo/archive/2004/04/30/12471.aspx)\]_

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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