Add-In is not registered after setup

[Michael Cross]

Hello NG,

I have developed a COM Add-In for Office with Visual Basic .NET. The
Add-In works, but I have a little problem with the installation on a
deployment machine.

After finishing the setup, the office application has not access to
the Add-In. First I have to do a regasm with the option /codebase to
make my COM Add-In available to office.

My assembly has a strong name, so I don't know why it does'nt work.
Can anybody help me? Is there a way to drop the regasm command within
the setup routine?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Michael

 

[Balasubramanian Ramanathan]

There are two things which you have to verify in the setup project
1) Make sure that the in the properties of youraddin.dll file, register
propety should have correct value
2) Registry entires for your add-in
HKLM\software\microsoft\office\excel\addins\progid should have proper
entries...
description
friendlyname
Loadbehaviour -3

Thanks
balu

 

[Helmut Obertanner]

I found out, that my AddIn developed with c#.net
has to be in the user/applicationdata/AddIn folder only if the dll is here
it is visible in the AddIn Menu.

there are some MSDN Articles about writing an .net Office AddIn .

Look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316723



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regards,
Helmut Obertanner
DATALOG Software AG
http://www.datalog.de
[obertanner at datalog dot de]