Problems with Outlook Add-In

[Richard Weigel]

Hi,

I'm responsible for an Outlook add-in, which imports incomming and outgoing
eMails into our business-software (customer relations management). Short
time ago I reinstalled my Windows XP. Since then my whole Office connection
has heavy malfunctions. For example: When I try to compile the Add-In the
compiler throws an error, that an object in my Project doesn't throw any
events (It's a (office)button object, so it must throw events to operate
properly). Or even when I open a new Project and try to create a new
Microsoft Word Application Instance it throws an error, that a dll can't be
loaded (Of course it doesn't tell me what dll :-( ). I already tried the
Office Repair Function of the Setup as well as to reinstall the whole office
(deinstall, reinstall) but it didn't helped. If anyone has an idea how to
solve this problems or can say how to analyse this problem more precisely
(for example what dll can't be loaded and/or why, ...) I would be very
thankful.

Technical Details:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633 -
Servicepack 1)
Office: Microsoft Office 2000 Premium SR-1
Word: 9.0.3821 SR-1
Outlook: 9.0.0.3821 SR-1

Also installed are:
Install Shield Express 4.1
Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition (SP5)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect

Thank you for taking time reading this

Greetings
Richard

 

[Michael Böhnisch]

This is just a wild guess, but helped for me in a similar situation

Try to re-register your Outlook add-in by initiating a compile from scratch of the Visual Studion wizard-generated deployment project. If your main project is named "myaddin" it should occur as "myaddinSetup" in the project explorer window

It has to be a complete build, an incremental build will not do

Regards

Michael