http://www.excelkb.com/article.aspx?id=10185

Kind regards,
Dennis

Kind regards,
Dennis

I’m at a client site and am thinking it’s definitely related to their setup. Some more investigation to do, but should be right I think.

Thanks heaps for your timely responses.

OK, how is the add-in installed, i.e. only to the person that install it or to everyone who use the computer? Add-ins installed to everyone does not show up in the COM add-in dialog.

If this does not help You out You can send me the solution allowing me to take a closer look.

Kind regards,
Dennis

I was already including the relevant (being outlook) XP PIAs in the GAC during the setup project install.

I’ve used the Bootstrapper tool to generate a package to install extensibilitymsm.msi and lockbackregkey.msi along with the addin msi.

This still isn’t working for me though. I can’t get the add in to appear in the com add-ins list at all, it’s not in disabled items either.

I also tried bootstrapping the relevant PIA’s with the same result. I’m 99.9% sure all pre req’s are met and registry values are being set correctly. Oh well, I’ll keep trying.

The requested prerequisites are:
.NET Framework 2.0 or later
Office XP PIAs

and I guess it’s the PIAs You have trouble with. To fix it You can create Your own bootstrapper, i.e. package, and make it available in the dialog prerequisites.

You can download the Bootstrapper Manifest generator to create the package:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg

Kind regards,
Dennis

Thanks for this – I am having exactly the same problem with vs2008 and office xp add-in.

But after installing the msi I still can’t access the appropriate pre req in the setup projects pre req list.

Is there anything else I need to do to get to it?

Thanks,
Nick

Thanks for stoping by
I’m still very busy with a project so I have little time to explore interesting stuff…

I believe that MSFT primary target is to get the latest versions of VS.NET, Office, SQL Server etc to work well on the Vista platform.

In my experience VS 2008, Office 2007 works very good on the Vista platform. Windows XP and earlier versions of Office seems to have less attention.

At present I’m trying to figure out why VS 2008 don’t work well with Office XP on Windows XP. If I find a solution I will make a blogpost about it.

I hope that the upcoming SP-1 of VS 2008 will resolve this issue as well as other issues too.

Take care and all the best,
Dennis