I have created a PowerPoint addin using the steps from this article:
Using RibbonX from Visual Basic
The plugin works fine when I start the project using F5 in Visual Studio 2005. But if I try to use the installer created by the setup project that is automatically added to the solution, the plug-in won't show when I run powerpnt.exe
Is there something I missed? Do I need to make some modifications to the installer?
Have you also enabled the plugin in Powerpoint -> Options -> Add-ins on the machines where you installed the Add-in?
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I have create a c# application with a windows service and 2 vsto projects. Once the MSI has been created/installed i can see the one add-in was installed and the service is deployed as well. My problem comes in where only one of the vsto projects is installed. The one that is giving me nightmares is a Outlook visual designer ribbon. The other vsto project is a non visual add-in, and that one installs just fine. For the life of me i can't figure out why the visual designer is not installing, it is not in outlook options and not in control panel/add remove either. Compiling it from Visual studio everything works fine and runs as it should. Does anyone maybe have an idea of what could be wrong? Thanks in advance.
If you don't see your add-in listed on the COM add-ins dialog the required windows registry keys were not added properly. See Registry Entries for Application-Level Add-Ins for more information.
Make sure that you did all the necessary steps described in the Deploying an Office Solution by Using Windows Installer article.
I have developed Outlook 2010 addIn project and I have to setup this to users computers. When there is Visual Studio installed in user's computer it is ok. But when there is not installed Visual Studio , then my AddIn doesn't work. I don't want to install FULL Visual Studio. I thought to install "Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime" would help, but it didn't. What have I to do for this?.
The problem was that I had added Visual Basic component (LineShape) to my FormRegion. And my project is written in C#. So this was making some conflict. I removed that VB component , and it is solved.
Thanks you all for your help.
What you could do is create an InstallShield project for your Outlook Addin (from within Visual Studio) and accept its default options to include the necessary dependencies. The end result is an .msi file with everything the users would need to run your Addin.
Creating a InstallShield project from VS2013
As the other comments have mentioned, some dependency is missing from your user's PCs.
You just need to work out what is missing (and no, it's not a full installation of Visual Studio !)
I have developed one add-in using Outlook 2010 AddIn for outlook 2013 with visual studio 2012. I have developed User Controls and worked with Custom Task Pane in Add In.
It works perfectly when I debug add-in from visual studio. I have created setup file using Install Shield Limited Edition (following basic steps given by forum). However, if I install that add-in and open Outlook, Add In does not load and is not visible on Home tab. Nothing happen.
I haven't made any registry entry while building setup file.
Please let me know how can i make it working.
Thanks.
You will have to make an entry to Registry. You can simply do through Install shield program.
Here is the quick screen shot:
Make sure that the loadBehaviour is set to 3.
If there is any error in the addon on load then it will set to back to 0.
It has been long time I did not developed the addon but I am sure my information is correct.
Also make sure that the you look after for 64 vs 32 bits entry.
I found a quick link for you too: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeamsgdev/archive/2013/11/21/outlook-deploying-an-outlook-2013-add-in-using-installshield-le.aspx
I have developed an Outlook 2010 addin using Visual Studio 2010. When debugging/running from Visual Studio, everything works just fine. However, I am trying to make a setup so other users can simply install the addin. When running the setup on other computers, however, everything seems to work just fine, but the addin is not added to Microsoft Outlook.
By the way: even when running the setup on my computer (after having removed the addin that has been automatically added due to Visual Studio running), the addin is not added to MS Outlook. The addin project is referenced in the setup project that I build.
What could possibly be wrong?
Have you tried entering to outlook File -> Options -> Add-ins and check in the list if you app is registered and/or activated?
I have developed a Outlook Addin using VSTO in Visual Studio 2010, on Windows XP/SP 3.
Build the VSTO solution, and I open Outlook 2010.
I see that the Add in has been installed. ( which is strange ).
Shut down Outlook.
Clean the VSTO solution 5) Open Outlook 2010, the add in is not
there.
So I believe Outlook understands that an Outlook add in is there, but I dont want the mentioned behaviour.
What am I looking for :-
I have created the installer using ClickOnce .
I should only see the Outlook addin , once I have executed the installer.
Any ideas shall be helpful.
When you build a VSTO addin, it gets automatically installed on your development machine. It is Visual Studio that is doing this for you, to make debugging easyer.
You can probably uninstall your addin automatically by using post-build events, but "Clean project" may be just as easy.