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HockeyFan - 20 Mar 2007 18:31 GMT

I have an Excel project in C# that was developed in Visual Studio
2005. It works great. Development was great. Deployment has been a
bitch, to say the least.

I have tried publishing the Release to my local webserver and then hit
the site with a web browser and get the xls. The xls comes up fine,
but a message comes up saying that
"The customization assembly could not be fond or could not be
loaded."

So then I tried created a setup program and deployment to C:\Program
Files\whatever\

This runs on my machine, but doesn't seem to run on anyone else's when
installed.

I've gone in and configured Framework 2.0 to allow this directory
fulltrust.

How do the xls know where the assembly is? There's an application
manifest and an assembly manifest. I've looked at both and cannot
tell why the user can view the spreadsheet, but doesn't get the
assembly to load or run.

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Bryan Phillips - 21 Mar 2007 02:03 GMT

You may want to GAC your assembly on the users' machines.

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Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

> I have an Excel project in C# that was developed in Visual Studio
> 2005. It works great. Development was great. Deployment has been a
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> tell why the user can view the spreadsheet, but doesn't get the
> assembly to load or run.

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HockeyFan - 21 Mar 2007 15:47 GMT

> You may want to GAC your assembly on the users' machines.
>
> --
> Bryan Phillips
> MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
> Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

And this will make it so that the xls file will invoke the assembly?
Right now, I'm not getting any kind of error. It's just not
invoking. I would think that if it were an issue that the GAC would
solve, that I'd be getting an error. In this case, Excel acts as if
it isn't even aware that the assembly exists.

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Bob Eaton - 23 Mar 2007 03:54 GMT

Isn't "The customization assembly could not be fond or could not be loaded."
an error?

I have no idea whether this is your problem (not knowing much about VSTO),
but the way .Net normally works is that the assembly must be a) in the same
folder as the exe calling it (i.e. C:\PF\MO\Office11...), b) the Global
assembly cache (where it can find it easily enough), or c) you must register
the assembly with "Regasm /codebase" so that it adds the assembly location
to the registry.

Bob

>> You may want to GAC your assembly on the users' machines.
>>
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> solve, that I'd be getting an error. In this case, Excel acts as if
> it isn't even aware that the assembly exists.

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