Hi All,
I am really having a hard time with Visual Studio loading a project using VS. Net
I have a simple add-in that shows a message upon launching Excel. The
add-in works fine on my machine, which I used to create the add-in. But
when I try to load it on another machine using the .msi that gets
generated by VS .Net, I don't see that message! :(
I have made sure of the following:
that I see the registery getting created on the other
machine (with load value set to 3).
I have also made sure that my add-in is available to all
users.
The add-in doesn't even show in the add-in list when I look for it in
Excel. Shouldn't the VS.Net installer work Was I supposed to do something else or the VS.Net is the one that should do that for me
Any help pleeeeeeeeease! :(
VS. Net Add-in Installer doesn't load on another machine
Bobbias
thank you for the response. I haven't came to check the answers all these months. I didn't know that someone actually did.
Your solution is the only one that actually made sense. I went ahead and verified that all computers that the addin is running on properly do have those dlls and the ones that I couldn't run the addin on didn't.
I was unable yet to locate the package you were talking about or the group, can you help me out further with that, thank you very much
I appreciate your help
kingswood
Most likely you do not have Visual Studio installed on the computer that you are trying to run the Add-in on. This is probably because the file Extensibility.dll is not available, and so the file cannot be loaded. There is a package developed by the VSTO/Office groups that install this and other files necessary to run the Add-in, and you should install this package. Also, you need to make sure your security settings are correctly set to allow you to load the Add-in. Again, this would be an Office issue so any problems would need to be handled by that team.
Craig
Plow
If you are using VS 2005, maybe the package is this:
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Sample: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=E87F12DC-8324-4811-B0E9-54A6D6EA3D8F&displaylang=en
morlando
I finally was able, with your help, to solve the mystery. All I had to do was to add a reference to the extensibility.dll in my setup project of the addin and boom... it worked!!
Thank you again.
Todd Reifsteck - MS
Mowali:
Happy New Year (and sorry for the delayed response).
Please try the VS Extensibility Forum; someone there should be able to help you.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=57&SiteID=1
Michael Blome
Visual C# Documentation Team