Why don't we show?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Question for one of our customers:

When I load the COM Addin Management console, though, your Addin
doesn't appear. I'm also not able to grab hold of it via VBA, since
the right way to do it is to access it via its GUID in the
Excel.COMAddins collection.

I'm tempted to say that this means your Addin is not actually
COM-Accessible itself, but I believe that for any part of it to work
it must be. Can you shed any light on whether it was developed to
"hide" from the Office COM Addin Manager or if this is some failing in
my version of Office?

Is there something we need to do to make it visible? We're an an
IDTExtensibility2 AddIn (not VSTO) and we have a shim app that is what
Office sees (to handle how Office checks signing).

??? - thanks - dave


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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

As far as I know, this should be a by design behavior in Office 2003. So,
could you please make a confirmation with your customer if they encounter
this behavior when using Office 2003 and deploying the COM AddIn in the
HKLM?

We can suggest him to read the following KB article for more information,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290868

Misha has also posted a comment related to this in the MSDN forum,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/efa74b0c-1b47-41d1
-9a41-08959b39f48e/.

"The truth to be told is that Office 2003 never displayed HKLM deployed
add-ins in the COM Add-Ins dialog. This design had to do with inability of
the regular users to disable HKLM deploy add-ins (since this is controlled
through a LoadBehavior registry value located in HKLM which regular users
do not have a permission to modify). Office 2007 changed their design and
they would show HKLM registered add-ins in the COM Add-Ins dialog"

Hope this helps! Have a nice day! If there is any future questions or
concerns from you customer, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Colbert Zhou (colbertz @online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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[David Thielen]

that makes sense - thanks

Hello Dave,

As far as I know, this should be a by design behavior in Office 2003. So,
could you please make a confirmation with your customer if they encounter
this behavior when using Office 2003 and deploying the COM AddIn in the
HKLM?

We can suggest him to read the following KB article for more information,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290868

Misha has also posted a comment related to this in the MSDN forum,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/efa74b0c-1b47-41d1
-9a41-08959b39f48e/.

"The truth to be told is that Office 2003 never displayed HKLM deployed
add-ins in the COM Add-Ins dialog. This design had to do with inability of
the regular users to disable HKLM deploy add-ins (since this is controlled
through a LoadBehavior registry value located in HKLM which regular users
do not have a permission to modify). Office 2007 changed their design and
they would show HKLM registered add-ins in the COM Add-Ins dialog"

Hope this helps! Have a nice day! If there is any future questions or
concerns from you customer, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Colbert Zhou (colbertz @online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
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