I'm working on a VSTO add-in for Outlook, versions 2007-2013and minimum .Net version is 4.0. In my project I have a couple of referenced libraries. When I deploy the add-in via MSI (built via Wix) the add-in itself is loaded into Outlook but, the referenced libraries are not available.
It works fine on my development machine so I'm assuming it is a trust issue of some sort. I am uncertain as to what needs done to have the included libraries themselves be trusted. Any help is appreciated.
Are you using VS setup project for addin deployment? If so, you might want to try
Right-click setup project icon => Add => Assembly...
to add your external libraries.
Regarding the trust issue, please take a look at these articles on MSDN. Inclusion list might also be helpful in your case.
Also, to test deployment on your development machine, I'd suggest you clean your project/solution first
Right-click Project/Solution icon in Solution Explorer => Clean
then deploy and install your addin onto your machine.
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We have a Microsoft word add-in that is working fine on the majority of pc's.
On a particular windows 7 pc, it has the visual studio 2010 tools for office installed correctly.
But when a user creates a new template word document, they get teh following error:
The customization assembly could not be found or could not be loaded.
You can still edit and save the document. Contact your administrator
or the author of this document for further assistance.
We have tried unloading all dependencies but still does not make any difference.
This is an issue effecting a small amount of windows 7 pc's with office 2016 installed. It seems to be pc related rather than the application.
Usually, the reason behind such an error is that the permissions for loading the VSTO solution are missing. One thing that often gets "missed" when deploying VSTO solutions is that the document must be in a "trusted location". You might want to check that this is the case by looking in the Word "Trust Center" (in the Options). You also need to be sure you've installed the correct version of the VSTO run-time for the version of Windows and Office. Read more about that in the Troubleshooting Run Time Errors in Office Solutions article.
Also it may indicate that you didn't include all required dependencies to your add-in's installer (any platform-specific assemblies). Something is missing on the target machines, so I'd suggest looking for any difference between machines. You can add the .NET Framework, the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, and the Office primary interop assemblies to your Setup package as prerequisites that are deployed with your Office solution. For information about how to install the primary interop assemblies, see Configuring a Computer to Develop Office Solutions and How to: Install Office Primary Interop Assemblies.
The required steps for deploying Office solutions are described in the following articles:
Deploying an Office Solution by Using ClickOnce
Deploying an Office Solution by Using Windows Installer
You can use the event viewer in Windows to see error messages that are captured by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime when you install or uninstall Office solutions. You can use these messages from the event logger to resolve installation and deployment problems. For more information, see Event Logging for Office Solutions.
See Troubleshooting Office Solution Deployment for more information.
I have followed the following guide to try and create an MSI to deploy a VSTO add in for Outlook. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc442767.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
I have carefully followed this guide on two occasions, ensuring in particular that I placed the registry keys in every place I can imagine they would be need to be in order to be detected.
The MSI is created successfully and installs successfully also, the problem is that when I run Outlook after the MSI is installed, Outlook does not recognize the Add In and load it.
If I use Click once to install the add in it is recognized by outlook without any issue. The problem with that is that we want to install the application silently using SCCM and clickonce cannot be deployed silently.
What could possibly be going wrong?
The issue in this case, was that the guides code for installing the prerequisite "Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime" did not work properly and the prerequisite was not installed.
Any user that needs to run the add in will need the VSTO tools from this link installed
https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/download/details.aspx?id=48217
Hopefully this will be of some help to anyone else
EDIT: For anyone in the UK - The registry entry "LoadBehavior" must be spelled exactly as it appears here. I used the UK spelling "LoadBehaviour" and it was the sole reason my install was not successful. I was held back for several days due to this.
I have created a WIX Install MSI file for my Office Outlook Plugin. Everything runs fine however when i uninstall it through add/remove programs everything is removed except for the Plugin in Outlook. It runs but gives errors because the other components are now missing. How can I get it to remove it without going to Outlook and removing the plugin manually?
I have added the "RemoveFolder" tag in the XML which has no effect.
I'm guessing that you are doing some kind of active setup trick to do HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry propogation. I'd suggest not doing this and instead register the extension in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. This way when the uninstall runs it can access all of the components that need to be removed. There are gotchas in terms of different patch versions of different versions of office and how they behave in terms of supporting per-machine registration of AddIns. Details can be found in blog articles that I've written over the years titled VSTO lessons learned.
I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and I want to install Umbraco CMS, with which I have no previous experience.
Common installation methods i.e. Installing either via Microsoft Webmatrix or Web Platform Installer didn't work for me. The former is for 7 and 8 versions of Windows and the latter downloads all installation files but fails to install. That is it shows "Installing ..." dialog for over 3 hours that makes me to forcefully end the installation. So all efforts have to be done from scratch (including download of the installation components using Web Platform Installer).
Is there a way to manually install Umbraco without the help of Platform Installer? I have downloaded seperately the files needed for Vista(e.g. Umbraco 7xxx.zip,Powershell 2, ASP.NET MVC, etc.). I don't see any executable in the package for Umbraco. There are just DLL's which I don't know where to copy to, as well as many aspx and ascx files that I don't know what to do with.
http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/releases shows the latest and all other available umbraco releases.
Under the 'Current' heading, you will find links to the most recent stable release detail page where you can grab UmbracoCms.X.X.X.zip which are all the files you need to go through the process manually.
One of the absolute best things about umbraco is that it's so easy to spin up a new isntall this way!
Important! Before you unzip - be sure to right-click the .zip file and open the properties page.
There will be an option to "Unblock" - be sure to click this or you may well experience issues with the dlls.
Unzip these files to where your webroot will be, set-up your IIS site and open in your browser - umbraco will automatically pick up that you need to do 'the install' and take you through a few simple steps that set-up the database and your admin credentials. There are no exe's or installer files - it's all embedded, more-or-less, in the site.
A good practice is the remove the [/install/] folder once you've gone through these steps.
Umbraco has some installation documentation here if you want to see all the various ways and steps available to install an umbraco site. -I prefer the .zip way described above, but you can also go the NuGet route too.
For .net 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have the new client profile which installs only a subset of .net 3.5 SP1 on to Windows XP user's machines.
I'm aware of how to make my assemblies client-profile ready. And I've read the articles on how to implement an installer for ClickOnce or MSI.
But I've been using Inno Setup for my project so far and I'd like to continue to use it (as an Express user, I can't easily make MSIs), I need to know how to use the client-profile installer in a custom environment.
There is an article on a Deployment.xml schema, but no indication of how to write one, package it or anything else. Can someone explain this process? Finding the articles I linked to alone was a painful search experience.
Microsoft has now shipped the Client Profile Configuration Designer (Beta).
This designer lets you edit the XML files with some limitations, this isn't a 'Google beta' by any means.
Information and download
Can you clarify: Are you trying to write an installer for your app, which depends on the Client-Profile, or are you trying to write a custom installer for the client-profile?
I haven't used it personally, but if it's anything like the dotnetfx 1 and 2 msi's, you basically have to just invoke it's executable yourself from your own .exe file, or from an Msi BEFORE the InstallExecuteSequence starts up - you can't "embed" those in your own app, MS go out of their way to tell you not to do that due to suckage of MSI.
Client profile works only on clean XP. If your user as .Net 1 or 2 installed, client profile wont install...
You have an offline version (integrating Full .Net3.5 Install in case Client Wont install) 200 to 300Mo don't remember
Online version will get required files.
You can call a silent install from the first steps of your install.