Excel add in from VS2003 to VS2005

[Albert]

Hi all,

I am migrating to VS2005 a VS2003 Excel add-in project (written in VB.NET).
It was everything fine until I had to deploy the 2005 release to a pc
running Office XP because, after a successfull (at least in appearance)
setup, Excel XP did not load the Add-in.
Since the 2003 version run both on XP and 2003 Excel version, I managed to
reference the lowes PIA version, but without success.

Everything works fine in Office 2003.

I built a (virtual) pc with Office XP and VS2005 to make a build using only
Office XP components, but I was not able load the add-in in office XP neither
launching the debug from the VS IDE.

To work around the problem I lowered to "Minimum" the Excel security level
and checked the "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" option (the
project is signed with a snk file)... but Excel XP still does not load it.

What am I missing?

Thank you very much for help
Albert

 

[S.Creek]

Hi Albert,
i had a very similar problem when i migrated my PowerPoint Addin from
VS2003 to VS2005.
the problem was a bug from Microsoft which they have resolved,
try do that

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002/

hope it will help

Oded

 

[Albert]

Thank you very much... now it works fine both on 2002 and 2003 versions of
Excel.

 

[S.Creek]

Happy i could help

Oded.