Deployment of Add-ins

[Ken Wilson]

I have written two C# managed add-ins using Visual Studio 2005. I
have one for Word and one for Project, both of which are part of
Office 2003. Where should the add-in assembly itself go for each of
these products. Where should the support assemblies go, i.e. the
installer for the Word add-in is packing these two DLLs along with the
add-in: "Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.dll" and
"Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll"?

Thank you in advance.

Ken Wilson
Seeking viable employment in Victoria, BC

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ken,

I have written two C# managed add-ins using Visual Studio 2005. I
have one for Word and one for Project, both of which are part of
Office 2003. Where should the add-in assembly itself go for each of
these products. Where should the support assemblies go, i.e. the
installer for the Word add-in is packing these two DLLs along with the
add-in: "Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.dll" and
"Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll"?

It shouldn't matter, really, in which file path they're stored, as long
as this is correctly registered on the system. If you're distributing
IAs that your program generated, these should be in the same folder
path. You should NOT try to place them in the GAC. Only the MS PIAs that
are installed with the applications should go into the GAC.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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