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dotnet interop : Deploying Office 2003 Add-ins with W2K and VS.Net 2003

mac7attack NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
4/27/2006 2:49:25 PM

Hello,

I have written an Outlook add-in in Visual Studio .net 2003 and
installed it on the machine it was built on. I need to be able to
deploy this add-in to about 6 other computers. I tried to install the
MSI package on another computer. This installation went through fine
but the add-in is not avaibable in Outlook.

The path to the msi pacl:
....\My Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\NewHireNotify2\NewHireNotify2Setup\Release\NewHireNotify2Setup.msi

What steps do I need to take in to get this add-in avaibable for use on
other computers??

Thanks
Matt

Phil Wilson
4/27/2006 5:01:50 PM

"Install" here means some kind of registration, so the issue is about what
you did in your MSI setup.

Installing these (and developing with them) might also be an issue:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0-d36d67e0f4ad&DisplayLang=en
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mac7attack NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
4/27/2006 5:16:14 PM

OK so I installed Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies.

What help are those to me??
Do I need to wrap thes PIA's into my msi package? If so, how do I do
that?

Thanks
Matt

mac7attack NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
4/28/2006 3:03:41 PM

Does anyone reply to messages after the 1st reply? or is the post
considered dead?

Phil Wilson
5/1/2006 10:10:30 AM

You need to deploy those PIAs, otherwise how do they get on the client
systems? A custom action to run them should work.
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mac7attack NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
5/1/2006 2:06:28 PM

Ok, how do I setup that custom action??

Phil Wilson
5/2/2006 9:56:23 AM

It's not that hard to Google for visual studio custom actions, but try this:
http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/06/07/visual-studio-setup/
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