Installation Issue

[Martin Koenig]

Hi All

I wrote an COM Addin for Outlook 2003 with VS 2003 C#. The AddIn includes a
toolbar and a option property page extension. It works nicely on my machine.
It works nicely in Outlook 2003 on another developers machine. But we have a
problem on a end user computer environment.

The toolbar and the property page extension do not appear after the
installation on the end user computer. I made sure that Outlook 2003 is
updated with SP2 on the end users machine.

The 2003 PIA is installed as well.

Is there anything else the client needs?
Any hints on how to tackle this issue?

Thanks heaps for your help!!
Martin

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

What else are you deploying with your code? In general you probably need to
deploy Extensibility.dll and stdole.dll as well as any other dependencies
you have.

 

[Martin Koenig]

Hi Ken
Thanks for your response. I've went through my Setup project file and
compiled the following file list:


stdole.dll

shdocvw.dll

Extensibility.dll

AskNetOutlook.tlb (That is my project)


office.dll

AxInterop.SHDocVw.dll (I'm opening a web browser window therefore I need
this reference)

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll



Am I missing something?



Thanks for your help!

Martin

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The browser dll you won't need to deploy, that's a standard thing. The
others you will need to deploy or at least verify are present, along with
whatever Framework version you're using.

 

[Martin Koenig]

Since this is a list of the Setup project I assume that they are beeing
deployed once the end user installes the application.

How can I check that all the files are in the correct spot and the registry
is as it should to be?
Is there a good description or overview about this somewhere?

Thanks
Martin

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You would right-click on the setup project and select View and then registry
and file system to see what's actually being deployed and what the target
registry will look like.

There are walkthroughs for deployment for both shared addins as well as for
VSTO addins. I don't have an URL for the shared addin deployment
walkthroughs offhand but you should be able to find them using a Google
search. You can also download the sample addins from the Outlook team, which
include complete setups for both shared addins and VSTO addins from the MSDN
web site for Office development. There's a shim in the shared addin projects
and a new shim wizard was recently released for Office 2007 addins.