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Visual Studio 2010: Specify advanced publishing options (Saurabh Bhatia)
19 October 09 03:31 PM

I have previously posted how you can specify various properties for a VSTO solution like the Publisher and Product Names by tweaking a few files in Visual Studio 2008. With Visual Studio 2010 ( Beta 2 ) you can edit these properties directly through the Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 0 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Publisher Name, SupportUrl, Product Name, Add Remove Programs, Office Addin Properties, Programs and Features, add-ins, Visual Studio 2010

Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation (Mary Lee)
21 May 09 10:00 AM

Starting in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you can perform additional tasks after an Office solution is installed known as a post-deployment action. For example, you can copy a customized Office document and create registry keys on the end user computer. Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Mary Lee, Deployment, VS2010

Deploying Multiple Office Solutions In a Single Installer (Mary Lee)
20 May 09 10:00 AM

Starting in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single ClickOnce installer. For example, you can develop two Office solutions (one for Outlook and another for Excel) and combine these into a single installer with a Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Mary Lee, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2010

Issues with installing VSTO projects that were published from Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 RC (Saurabh Bhatia)
07 May 09 01:32 PM

Many customers have reported issues with installing a VSTO project that has been published with Visual Studio 2008 running on the recently released Windows 7 Release Candidate. If you published your solution using VS2008 on a machine running the Windows Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 8 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, VS2008, Saurabh Bhatia, Windows 7 RC

Signing and re-signing manifests in ClickOnce (Saurabh Bhatia)
29 April 09 06:25 PM

ClickOnce manifest signing can be a little confusing for someone going through the process the very first time. This is probably because it involves signing multiple files in a particular sequence. Once you understand the process conceptually it becomes Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 11 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Mage

Channel 9 Interview: Resigning ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE (Beth Massi, Saurabh Bhatia)
08 April 09 08:25 AM

I just posted another interview on Channel 9 . I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, VS2008, Saurabh Bhatia, Beth Massi

VSTO Runtime bootstrapper package failure causes deployed customization installation to fail (Aaron Cathcart)
07 February 09 12:48 AM

In an attempt to make this easier to read here are a few terms I will be using frequently in this article: VSTOR = Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (version 3.0 Runtime) (x86) VSTORSP1 = Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, MSI, Add Remove Programs, SP1, Aaron Cathcart, Bootstrapper

Best Practices for Deployment with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Mary Lee, Rachel Schaw)
02 February 09 03:01 PM

After you develop Office solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office, you can use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to simplify your deployment experience. First, you can take advantage of the smaller .NET Framework Client Profile to decrease download time. Next, Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Mary Lee, Deployment, primary interop assemblies, .NET Framework Client Profile, Rachel Schaw

Why Can’t I Change the Update Path when Redeploying VSTO Solutions? (Christin Boyd, Kris Makey, Jeff Young)
16 December 08 02:45 PM

The other day I was asked about the automatic Updates feature of VSTO 3.0 deployment. In this scenario, he used the Publish Wizard in VS 2008 to create a Word document solution and the install manifest. Then a bunch of people used the Word document, and Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 0 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, VS2008, Manifest, Add Remove Programs

How to Include .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 with Your Installer (Mary Lee)
18 November 08 02:55 PM

Recently in the Visual Studio Tools for Office forum , a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 developer asked how to include the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 in the same directory as the application.  For example, you can select Download prerequisites from Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 14 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Mary Lee, Deployment, MSI

What's New in VS 2008 SP1 and how the VSTO team decided what to include in a Service Pack (Christin Boyd, Mary Lee)
11 July 08 12:29 PM

Updated August, 2008 I'd like to give you some insight into how we decide what goes into a Service Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio. I'm speaking specifically about how the VSTO team built SP1; most other groups within Visual Studio use the same process. Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 5 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2008, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile

Specifying a Product Name, Publisher Name and other properties for VSTO solutions (Saurabh Bhatia)
11 June 08 04:04 PM

Many customers have requested how to specify options like a Product or Publisher Name for Office 2007 VSTO solutions deployed from Visual Studio 2008. However, you cannot specify these properties in the Visual Studio IDE. In this post, I will describe Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 13 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Office 2007, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Publisher Name, SupportUrl, Product Name, Add Remove Programs, Office Addin Properties, Programs and Features

Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee)
29 May 08 06:32 PM

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: Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 6 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Deployment, VS2008

Peek at Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)
11 May 08 10:42 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1. I recommend starting with reading Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, smart tags, VB, C#

Adding the Office Primary Interop Assemblies as a Prerequisite in your ClickOnce installer (Mary Lee)
08 May 08 02:21 PM

When you use ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2008 to deploy your Office solution, you can include prerequisites such as the .NET Framework 3.5, the Visual Studio Tools for Office system 3.0 Runtime, and Windows Installer 3.1. However, the primary interop assemblies Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 44 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, Mary Lee, VSTO Power Tools, Deployment, primary interop assemblies