FrontPage Addin Startup problem

[Jason]

Developing FrontPage Addin with .net 2003.

Tool runs just fine on my system in the developent environment. When Build
for release and installed on test machines the Add-in seems to have a problem
starting. The weird thing as that if I click on Tools/Addins the addin
imediately loads...What's it waiting for??

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jason

 

[Jason]

I've just found that this is due to FrontPage not shutting down correctly on
first run. When I startup Frontpage a second time the addin does not load
straight away...Why Won't FrontPage shutdown correctly? I am setting all
variables to nothing..Do I need to garbage collect?? Is there a tool to show
me what FrontPage is attached to that is not allowing it to close???

Thanks
Jason

 

[Jason]

More update:

I've narrowed it down to code where I store a reference to the application
object

moAppObj = Application

in the OnConnection method.

moAppObj is Declared as

Private moAppObj WithEvents as FrontPage.Application

I need the With events because I am interacting with them...

On Shutdown I am setting the object to nothing

moAppObj = Nothing

Is there something else I can to to kill the object?

Thanks
Jason

 

[Jason]

Looks like I got it to work.

Before final shutdown I added GC.Collect to force Garbage
collection...FrontPage now shutsdown just fine...

Jason

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi,

I am glad that you have resolved the issue, if you still have any concern
on this issue ,please feel free to post here.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[Abhishek Bagga]

Hi!
I would like to ask u and Jason a related question
I am doing a similar thing, but i am facing a mojor problem.
How do i install this addin on the user/testing system
One way that i know of is vdproj but that creates three files .msi,.ini,.exe
and if distributing it to the user, it becomes difficult and confusing.
First can we have the vdproj create a single exe
Or i tried it with Installshield as well but that does not support addins

Kindly let me know if there is some better option

Regards
Abhishek Bagga

 

[Jason]

The MSI is all you need...Copy it to the Test machine and run it...The
install should work fine