Outlook Add-In Installation works only in developer environment

I have created an HelloWorld-like Addin for Outlook,
which installed ok, both in development and on end-user machines,
but refused to load when starting Outlook. When I added the Environment Variable "VSTO_LOGALERTS = 1" to my system, I got an error log which told me that it failed because of code access security reasons.
I then included an installer class based on
http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/archive/2005/07/01/417148.aspx
which adds a custom action to my setup project which sets the code access security for my addin.
Now the installation works well on workstations with development environments, but when i try to run the installer in the user environment, the installation fails with the following message:
Unable to get installer types in the <MyAddin.dll> assembly.
Unable to load one or more of the requested types.
Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.

So my questions are:

1. From where can I retrieve this LoaderExceptions property
2. Any good ideas to what I have done wrong
Thanks in advance
Anders Winthereik
Bankinvest
Denmark

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Outlook Add-In Installation works only in developer environment

JHerington
Have you installed the prerequisitives:
1. .NET Framework 2.0
2. Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 (or later)
3. Microsoft Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies (O2003PIA.exe)
4. Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime (vstor.exe)
(explained at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2ac08ee2.aspx)

When only the user machines fail and not the development ones it sound like this kind of problem.

The LoaderExceptions property is probably this one, but Mads' code does not use reflection as far I know.

You could put a try-catch around this code an catch the ReflectionTypeLoadException and write exceptions to somewhere just to check that it isn't the installer (and if it is it may give additional information :-)

/Lars
Outlook Add-In Installation works only in developer environment

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