how to redistribute the fix for IExtensibility (besides KB908002)

[Bob Eaton]

Is there another way to redistribute the patch for KB908002?

The description for that seems to only work if your setup project is a
VS.Net 2005 project, but the installer I need to include the fix in is Wise
and soon to be WiX and it isn't clear that the fix described therein will
work.

I think what I need is just the extensibilityMSM.msi part of that patch, but
I'm just wondering if there's another way to redistribute that fix... for
example, is there a merge module that we can include (since it's difficult
to include an msi within an msi).

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Hi Bob,

If you are targeting Office 2007, then you only need to deploy
extensibility. In that case, you can make your life very easy. Just
deploy extensibility.dll to the folder with your add-in DLL. No need to
use any MSI.


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[Bob Eaton]

Patrick,

Thanks for the feedback. Actually, the COM Add-in needs to work with 2003 as
well. Is that a problem?

Is there any disadvantage with just putting the extensibility.dll in the
same folder (seeing as how the normal "fix" puts it in the GAC)?

Bob

Hi Bob,

If you are targeting Office 2007, then you only need to deploy
extensibility. In that case, you can make your life very easy. Just deploy
extensibility.dll to the folder with your add-in DLL. No need to use any
MSI.


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Is there another way to redistribute the patch for KB908002?

The description for that seems to only work if your setup project is a
VS.Net 2005 project, but the installer I need to include the fix in is
Wise
and soon to be WiX and it isn't clear that the fix described therein will
work.

I think what I need is just the extensibilityMSM.msi part of that patch,
but
I'm just wondering if there's another way to redistribute that fix... for
example, is there a merge module that we can include (since it's
difficult
to include an msi within an msi).

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

If you need to support both Outlook 2003 and 2007 then develop on a machine
with Outlook 2003 and use that PIA. Of course then you can only use methods,
properties and events available in Outlook 2003.

You can deploy extensibility to your installation folder without problems.