Help loading Add-In VB.Net 2005

[Rick H]

I have a addin I developed in VB6-migrated to VB.net 2003 and with a
little tweaking it was working fine. I was able to deploy to machines
running Outlook XP or 2003. Now I have upgaded to 2005 and it runs fine
on the development machine, but when I run setup on a machine that
doesn't have VB.net installed it never loads. The LoadBehavior is set
to 3 when installed and when I start Outlook it gets set to 2. I have
even went back to basic and downloaded the MicroEye sample addin. This
is doing the same thing. What am I missing?

I have loaded the PIA's on the deployment machine for the version of
outlook I'm deploying to.
The machine I'm deploying to is a Window XP Pro. Full install of
OfficeXP.

Please HELP!!! Rick

 

[Jim]

Does the machine have the .NET framework installed?

 

[Rick H]

Yes, it has .NET framework 2.0, same as development machine. It is
installed during set up if it is not on the machine already. I have
tried just about everything (except what it needs). Even if I select
Just Me on the set up I still can't see the addin in the Options menu.
I'm about ready to revert back to VB6, but really hate to do this after
all the time I have put into getting it to work in .NET.

 

[Helmut Obertanner]

Hello,

I don't know how you created your addin with Visual Studio 2005.
Is it using the VSTO extension / runtime. Then you have to redistribute
the VSTO runtime on the target machines.

There also exists an update for Office - but I don't know if it helps
for Outlook 2003.
I recommend: when creating an Outlook AddIn use VS2003 against Framework
1.1 and put the folowing file into the Outlook.exe path named
Outlook.exe.config:

<configuration>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v1.1.4322"/>
<supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

Until you didn't use new VSTO / .Net 2.0 features you should be able to
compile your solution against Framework 1.1.


Office Update Issue with .Net 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b0bfb35-c252-4
3cc-8a2a-6a64d6ac4670&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps,

with regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen


Helmut Obertanner
MCSD.NET MCSE CACP
Microsoft Licensing Specialist 2005
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