Add-in updation without RE-install ..

[Joe]

hi All,

i have developed An Outlook Addin for Office 2000,XP&2003 Using VS2005
and Shim Wizard 2.0 . It works fine in all the target machines . Now
after i distribute the product i want to supply the users with the
updated versions of the same product.

i m not using VSTO for my project development . i m using the normal
shared-addin project using the IDEextensibility2 .

As a reason i cant use the Publish (clickOnce deployment ) directly .
for that the steps are given in this link :
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Outlook_Add-in.asp

But i should be able to do the same with the project i ve made.. how do
i do that ...

i ve seen a few links which describes about ...
Deploying the application with the MageUI.exe Graphical Tool
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc3tc5xx.aspx

Here.. i m not sure if its the right technology and strategy to be used
in this situation..

even with MageUi.exe i ve an msi pacage and its prerequsites as input
to it , and there i m not able to specify "Entry Point" .

would anybody help me in this regard..

thanks in advance.. .

 

[pavan]

Hey,
I'm definitely not an expert in this area. But I do have one
suggestion:

Why dont you make the changes build the dll with the same verion number
and public key and crreate a setup which replaces the existing dll?Give
it to users like a update setup.

regards,
pavan