Outlook addin deployment problem in Office 2000 ?

[Srinu]

Hi,

I have an Outlook Addin.( OLAddin.dll ) created un C# .NET 2003.
When i use the Setup.exe created by the default deployment project
(the project which is created automatically by the .NET ) , This addin is
working in both Office2000 an Office2002.

The problem :
I have another setup project for my entire application and added the
OLAddin.dll to the Main Deployement project, It is working in Office2002 and
not in Office 2000.
The following are the things i did for the adding the OLAddin.dll
to my main deployment project.
- Added the OLAddin.dll and changed the registration
property to SelfRegister
- Added the registration key which i found exactly in
the default deployment project.
The above is working fin in Office 2002 and not in Office 2000.

Can you please help me in this ?

Thanks,
Srinu

 

[Dave Kane [MVP - Outlook]]

Expand the Dependencies folder in the default deployment project. Minimally
there should be an Outlook COM interop assembly and there may be other files
that are dependencies for your application. Make sure those are included in
your main deployment project, with the same properties.

 

[Srinu]

Thanks for your reply. I figured out a way. The folloiwng is what i did
Build the addin with outlook 2002 references

Build the addin with outlook 2000 references ( on the same machine with pre
generated outlook 2000 assemblies )

During the install on an office 2000 system replace the reqular addin (
2002 ) with the addin generated using Outlook 2000 references.

Thanks