VSTO 2005 Excel Application & ClickOnce

[Michael Kalika]

Hi,

We have developed a VSTO 2005 Excel application and we would like to
leverage ClickOnce deployment mechanism for distribution of this
application.
How can we do that? I was digging in MSDN for VSTO & ClickOnce documentation
and did not find anything. I've noticed that there is an option to
publish the project, but when I do that and then run the application from
Web it throws us security errors like:

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.42
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)

SOURCES
Deployment url : http://localhost/miniexcel/MiniExcel.application

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later
in the log.
* Activation of http://localhost/miniexcel/MiniExcel.application resulted
in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Exception reading manifest from
http://localhost/miniexcel/MiniExcel.application: the manifest may not be
valid or the file could not be opened.
+ Deployment manifest is not semantically valid.
+ Application reference identity must be strongly named.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [25/02/2007 12:46:13] : Activation of
http://localhost/miniexcel/MiniExcel.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [25/02/2007 12:46:13]
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse)
- Exception reading manifest from
http://localhost/miniexcel/MiniExcel.application: the manifest may not be
valid or the file could not be opened.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String
localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
at
System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore
subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState,
IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options,
ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at
System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore
subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState,
IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri
activationUri, Boolean isShortcut)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object
state)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException
(ManifestSemanticValidation)
- Deployment manifest is not semantically valid.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSemanticsForDeploymentRole()
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSemantics(ManifestType
manifestType)
at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String
localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException
(ManifestComponentSemanticValidation)
- Application reference identity must be strongly named.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateApplicationDependency(DependentAssembly
da)
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSemanticsForDeploymentRole()

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.



Is there another method we can use for automatic distribution of our
application if ClickOnes doesn't support VSTO?

Thank you very much for your help and support,

Best Regards,

Michael

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Michael,

I understand that you want to use ClickOnce to automatically deploy the
VSTO application. If I am offset, please let me know.

Unfortunately, VSTO current version did not support ClickOnce deployment
which means you could not use the ClickOnce to deploy VSTO.

Product team is considering to enable ClickOnce deployment for VSTO in the
next generation of Visual Studio.

To deploy the VSTO, you need to generate the MSI setup package and use the
Windows Installer to install the application.

Please refer these articles to deploy VSTO.

Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows
Installer (Part 1 of 2)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537173(office.11).aspx

Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows
Installer: Walkthroughs (Part 2 of 2)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537179(office.11).aspx

Hope this will be helpful.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu

Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hi ,

How is everything going? Please feel free to let me know if you need any
assistance.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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