Problem setting outlook reference

I have code that was working in Beta 2 of VB 2005 using Outlook Interop. The original development machine had Office 2000 installed.

The project was transferred to a new machine that has Visual Studio 2005 Professional and Office 2003 installed. Originally, the code ran fine using the following references:
Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library - Version 2.1.0.0
Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library - Version 9.0.0.0

At some point, the system suggested an upgrade to a newer library. I allowed the upgrade, and it broke the program. The Outlook reference is lost.

Tried to set the references to the newer versions:
Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library - Version 2.3.0.0
Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library - Version 9.2.0.0

The Office reference is OK, but I can't set a working reference to Outlook. I get the message:
<The system cannot find the reference specified>.

Any suggestions

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Problem setting outlook reference

TLin

Hello

I have had similar problems.

I uninstalled and then reinstalled Office 2003 - but this did not help.

I have tried to run PIA install as per your reference but the install process seems to fail as the install program just dissapear after about 30 seconds.

Help ...

Regards
Richard
gbetz

Bob,

This looks like a PIA issue. Have you tried reinstalling the PIAs I recommend downloading the "Office 2003 PIA Redistributable Installation" and running it on the lcoal machine. You need to make sure the GAC files are properly installed.
You can grab the PIA redist here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0-d36d67e0f4ad&displaylang=en

If that does not work, reinstalling Office 2003 usually fixes the problem.

John.
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