Re: Outlook Add-in w/ VS 2005 Installation Woes
- From: "rkozlin" <rkozlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:14:02 -0800
Thanks for the reply, your advice has sent me in the right direction and I
have been able to run the add-in from my development machine without running
the IDE.
As to the next obvious step, time for more research....
Thanks
"Mike Bernstein" wrote:
> I have been through exactly the same problem. It is nothing to do with the
> IDE or the manifest. It is a code security problem. When you run the add-in
> from the IDE, it is loading the add-in .dll from the build directory, which
> has a security status of 'Full Trust' by default. When you install the
> add-in the .dll tries to load from the installation directory, which does
> not have the same 'Full Trust' security status and cannot load. If you Grant
> 'Full Trust' status to the installation folder and its contents the add-in
> will load. You can do this from the .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration Tool
> after installation.
>
> See the following MSDN documents:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zdc263t0.aspx and
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/6exya3kf.aspx
>
> My current problem is how you add this process to an installation CD for
> another stand alone PC.
>
> Mike Bernstein
>
> "rkozlin" <rkozlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:593E9008-C76F-43FE-8B75-25B8020C255D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have developed an Outlook add-in using VSTO that is working as intended
> > when launched from the IDE. However, when I build the installation
> > package
> > and install it on my development machine, my add-in will not load.
> >
> > I have checked in Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced -> COM Add-ins and
> > the add-in is listed as having had a runtime error and was not loaded.
> > Also
> > the Loadbehavior setting in the registry is changed from 3 to 2.
> >
> > I proceeded to error wrap the auto-generated code in the
> > ThisApplication.Designer.cs file to try and catch this error, however I
> > have
> > determined that none of the code runs at all. This tells me it is likely
> > a
> > dependency or registry setting that is incorrect.
> >
> > I have refreshed the detected dependencies - which changed nothing. By
> > default the following dependencies were excluded from the setup project.
> > I
> > have attempted different combinations of having some exluded some not,
> > etc.
> >
> > Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll
> > Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.dll
> > Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll
> > Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.tlb
> > office.dll
> >
> > Another interesting note is that after installing using the setup
> > project's
> > output, if I run the project just once in release mode from the IDE the
> > add-in does load. After that it will then load properly when running the
> > add-in by just running Outlook. So something the IDE is doing that the
> > Installer is not doing seems to be the key. Unfortunately, the only
> > change I
> > have been able to notice is that it changes the 'ManifestLocation'
> > registry
> > setting gets changed from the installation directory to the project's
> > directory.
> >
> > Anyone out there have some insight into add-ins with VS 2005 using VSTO?
> > I
> > am using Version 2.0.50727 of the framework and the add-in is written in
> > C#.
> > The IDE version is 8.0.50727.42.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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