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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...

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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

Can I deploy my <Insert App Name Here> and all of its prerequisites in one file? (Mary Lee)
14 October 09 03:16 PM

One frequent customer question is about how to deploy an application and all of its prerequisites in a single .msi or .exe file. This question applies whether you are deploying any of the following: Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with dependencies on Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Deployment, primary interop assemblies, Bootstrapper

Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)
04 June 09 01:29 PM

One of the VSTO MVPs pointed out that in some cases his customers were unable to resolve UNC paths consistently.  When he investigated further, he found that some branch offices of an enterprise were unable to resolve the UNC path ( \\myserver\myvstoapps\installpath\ Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Deployment

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

Deploying Office Solutions with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
18 March 09 08:36 AM

In Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee) , you read about how to deploy Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions with Windows Installer (.msi) in Visual Studio 2008.  With Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, the steps are the Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Deployment

Deploying Documents to a SharePoint Document Library (Mary Lee)
13 March 09 04:56 PM

When you are done developing your customized Microsoft Excel 2007 or Microsoft Word 2007 document-level project in Visual Studio 2008, you may want to publish it to a SharePoint document library for others to use from the SharePoint site, or they can Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Mary Lee, Deployment, SharePoint

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

Deploying Office 2003 Solutions with Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
17 December 08 03:08 PM

You may want to develop Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for several reasons. Your customers are using Microsoft Office 2003. Your customers are using both Microsoft Office 2003 and the Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 16 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Office 2003, Deployment, C#, MSI, add-ins

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