Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee)

You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.  These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks:

• Configure prerequisites: .NET Framework 3.5, the VSTO 3.0 runtime, and the Office primary interop assemblies.
• Add the project output and manifests to the Setup project.
• Create registry keys to load an application-level add-in.
• Sign the solution with a known and trusted certificate, use the ClickOnce prompt, or create an inclusion list entry to grant trust to your solution.
• Deploy additional components such as helper assemblies.
• Update document-level solutions to separate the document and assembly in separate locations.
• Use Windows Installer to install into the ClickOnce offline cache.
• Modify the Setup project for Vista.

Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Solution for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)

Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Solution for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Using Windows Installer (Part 2 of 2)

If you have questions about the whitepapers, please visit the Visual Studio Tools for Office MSDN Forum to search for answers and ask your questions.

Mary Lee, programming writer.