Office Add-In Deployment is very difficult?

[michael]

Hello, i try sience two weeks to create a Add-In for Microsofts Word.
It works greate on my development machine with visual studio 2005
installed.

but if i try it on a naked windows xp machine, with .net 2.0 and office
2003 installed the add-in would not load. If i open the "COM Add-Ins"
window in word, i see that the registry entrys that my setup makes are
correct, cuz the add-in is still registred in this window, but if i hit
the checkbox and press the OK button, and now open the "COM Add-Ins"
window again, there is a message "Load Behavior: Not loaded. A runtime
error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in". btw. Location is
"mscoree.dll" i' ve build my Add-In without "shim".. and the PIA's are
installed on this non developer machine..

I tryed many things to get fixed this..

My questions:
1. is there a way to get more information from word about the loading
problems? maybe a logfile
2. is it possible to deploy this addin on a non developer machine,
machine wide? so that other users also can use my Add-In?
3. did i need CAS without a "shim"?

thanks for your support, and sorry for my poor english...

Greets Mitch

 

[Michael]

This is my Code that i use to register the Add-In in the Registry...

sRegKey = "Software\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\IwanaAddIn"
newKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(sRegKey)

newKey.SetValue("Description", "let me be a working addin",
RegistryValueKind.String)
newKey.SetValue("FriendlyName", "IwanaAddIn", RegistryValueKind.String)
newKey.SetValue("LoadBehavior", 3, RegistryValueKind.DWord)
newKey.Close()

 

[Michael Tröge]

Hello Michael,

i get the same problem if i create a Add-In for Microsoft Outlook.
Maybe its a problem from MSCoree.dll!
Michael

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Michael]

I've updatet my testmachine, all the latest service packs for windows
xp and office 2003, both have SP2 and the latest security updates...
the problem still exist.. my addin does not load on startup...

any ideas?

greets
mitch

 

[Michael Tröge]

Hi Michael,

Add-IN are using the extensibility.dll and this File
needs our ADD-In. Please make sure that you setup
using this DLL and Copies to our setup.
Cheers
Michael

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hello, i try sience two weeks to create a Add-In for Microsofts Word.

It works greate on my development machine with visual studio 2005
installed.

but if i try it on a naked windows xp machine, with .net 2.0 and office
2003 installed the add-in would not load.

See if installing the Office 2003 SP2 hotfixes help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907417/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002/en-us


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Michael]

My Add-In works now fine, thanks a lot to Michael Tröge!

 

[Joe]

i get the same problem if i create a Add-In for Microsoft Outlook.
Maybe its a problem from MSCoree.dll!
Michael

hi

even i had the same problem .. i resolved it by making an update to
..net framework 2.0
it did my work..

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

i did all things said there and it works fine.. may be this could help
!!