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The information in this topic applies only to System Center 2012 SP1.

An add-in package is just a ZIP file that contains the add-in manifest and any other required files, such as .NET assemblies referenced by the manifest.

To create an add-in package

  1. Use an archive program that can create ZIP archives.

  2. Add the manifest.xml file to the ZIP archive.

  3. Add all files that your add-in depends on to the ZIP archive.

  4. Optionally, add any PDB files for debugging to the ZIP archive.

  5. Save the ZIP file, the name of the file is not important but it should end with .ZIP.

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