Deploying Office 2003 Add-ins with W2K and VS.Net 2003

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mac7attack@gmail.com - 27 Apr 2006 22:49 GMT

Hello,

I have written an Outlook add-in in Visual Studio .net 2003 and
installed it on the machine it was built on. I need to be able to
deploy this add-in to about 6 other computers. I tried to install the
MSI package on another computer. This installation went through fine
but the add-in is not avaibable in Outlook.

The path to the msi pacl:
...\My Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\NewHireNotify2\NewHireNotify2Setup\Release\NewHireNotify2Setup.msi

What steps do I need to take in to get this add-in avaibable for use on
other computers??

Thanks
Matt

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Phil Wilson - 28 Apr 2006 01:01 GMT

"Install" here means some kind of registration, so the issue is about what
you did in your MSI setup.

Installing these (and developing with them) might also be an issue:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0
-d36d67e0f4ad&DisplayLang=en

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> Matt

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mac7attack@gmail.com - 28 Apr 2006 01:16 GMT

OK so I installed Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies.

What help are those to me??
Do I need to wrap thes PIA's into my msi package? If so, how do I do
that?

Thanks
Matt

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mac7attack@gmail.com - 28 Apr 2006 23:03 GMT

Does anyone reply to messages after the 1st reply? or is the post
considered dead?

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Phil Wilson - 01 May 2006 18:10 GMT

You need to deploy those PIAs, otherwise how do they get on the client
systems? A custom action to run them should work.

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mac7attack@gmail.com - 01 May 2006 22:06 GMT

Ok, how do I setup that custom action??