PolyTraceAid Download And Installation

PolyTraceAid is currently implemented as an Addins of Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. It is still a research prototype that requires a lot of polishing and bug fixes. Many well-known bugs are queued to to be resolved. Please refer to the section Known Bugs for information.

VIsual Studio 2008

The Following Steps has been tried on Visual Studio 2008 with Windows7 x64 Platform.

1. Download the The Zip PTAInstallFile and Extract All.
   There should be 1 project file BST and 5 files. Extract all of them.
   • PolyTraceAid.Addin
   • PolyTraceAid.dll
   • Building A Simple BST.pptx
   • Tree Traversal.pptx
   • PtaExePaths.xml


2. Find the Visual Studio Data Directory
   • Visual Studio usually create this directory( Named "Visual Studio 2008" ) in C:\Users\user\Documents\
     So the Path may looks like C:\User\user\Documents\Vusual Studio 2008.
   • In the Visual Studio Data Directory, there should be a Directory named Addins. If not, Create The directory Manually.


3. Copy
   
   • PolyTraceAid.Addin
   • PolyTraceAid.dll
   to \Visual Studio 2008\Addins\


4. Installation Complete

Visual Studio 2010

For Visual Studio 2010, Please download PTAInstallFile here.

1. The first step for Visual Studio 2010 is same with steps for Visual Studio 2008. Extract All in the zip file.
   


2. Find the Visual Studio Data Directory
   • Visual Studio usually create this directory( Named "Visual Studio 2010" ) in C:\Users\user\Documents\
     So the Path may looks like C:\User\user\Documents\Vusual Studio 2010.
   • In the Visual Studio Data Directory, there should be a Directory named Addins. If not, Create The directory Manually.


3. Copy
   
   • PolyTraceAid.Addin
   • PolyTraceAid.dll
   to \Visual Studio 2010\Addins\


4. Installation Complete

Back To PolyTraceAid

Installation Problem

If you encounter unknown error with error number 80131515 when launch visual studio 2010.

Solve this by right clicking PolyTraceAid.dll and click "property", then click "Unblock" button as below

80131515 1.png