Another Addin Failure

[gandolf]

I recently moved an outlook adding from VS2003 to VS2005, made some
enhancements and everything worked well on the development machine, both with
and without a debugger attached. When I deployed it on a target machine
(actually several) by:

1. uninstalled the previous addin
2. install .NET framework 2.0
3. install VSTOF
4. install the enhanced addin.

When outlook launches, nothing happens. Outlook works normally but the addin
is not present. No error dialog messages, Nothing to indicate the error.
when I un-install the enhanced addin and re-install the old add-in, Outlook
and the add-in work properly.

On a recently configured machine, running WINXP with all upadate, and
Office, with all updates; perform step 2, 3 and 4 above, run outlook and the
addin works as it should. I will also note that this machine has .Net 1.0,
1.1 and 2.0 installed along with VS2003. The non-functional machine does
not. Another differences, the development machine, the fresh machine are
not configured for network connection to EXCHANGE. The non-functional
outlook connects to EXCHANGE.

I am at a loss. Helpppppp!!!

 

[Peter Hegelund]

Hi Gandolf,

are you running Outlook older than 2003 SP1?
If you do it would explain why the add-in doesn't show up.

You must also install PIA (Primary Interop Assemblies) which are .NET
wrappers around old COM stuff

Regards
Peter