Outlook plugin does not load

Hi Wizrr,

 Thanks for the reply. I tried the following:
1. installed office2003-kb907417sfxcab-ENU.exe on the test machine
2. installed lockbackRegKey.msi on the test machine.
3. installed extensibilityMSM.msi on the test machine.
4. I tried to regasm.exe to register the pia on the test machine

Nothing worked tho. do you know any way to debug this error?

Thanks!

Hi again,

forgot to mention that the test machine is Win Vista with all the updates on from windows updates.
one more thing, that is when I installed office2003-kb907417sfxcab-ENU.exe and installed the plug-in outlook ran and I could see that the plugin loaded but I cannot see it working, I tried to disable it and enable it again and it kepts saying plugin loaded as start up then I restarted outlook and I got the same old error again.

 I wish anyone can help me out!

Hello again,

 

 I installed VSTO2005SE in the client machine, and I tried an outlook add-in created in a VSTO with SetSecurity primary output added as a custom action in the install and uninstall.

 

 I have tried

 

set VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS=0

 

and runing outlook from the command, but there was no pop-ups or errors, but surprisingly, I found the Load behavior is Loaded at startup, and of course I got very happy, and I went looking for my add-in and I did not find it!!!

 

 I tried to restart, restart outlook and enable-disable the plug-in from the COM manager, and the status is still Loaded at startup but I cannot find my plug-in anywhere, I right-clicked on the command bar area and I did not find my command bar either, however I could get it to run perfectly on my dev machine!

 

 

 Please help!

 

 

Joe

wizrr,

 Thank you very much for the effort, I followed the document http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332052.aspx and I got stuck where it says that:
// text from the web page
To add the prerequisites
In Solution Explorer, right-click OutlookAddinSetup, and then click Properties.
In the Property Pages dialog box, click Prerequisites.
In the list of prerequisites, select the following items:
Microsoft Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
2007 Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE Runtime
Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime Language Pack if any users run your solutions with nonEnglish settings for Windows. These users must have the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Language Pack to see runtime messages in the same language as Windows.
// end of text

When I click prerequisits, I don't see the above items, however I'm so sure that they are installed in my machine. So I moved on without choosing items from the prereqs. and when I built the progect I took the whole Debug folder in the test machine and this time it showed me "Visual Studio 2005 tools for office SE runtime is not installed" and at the same time I made sure that vstor.exe is installed in that machine.

 What is going wrong? I really appreciate some help here! and thanks in advance!


Joe

The problem was solved and I'm very sorry that it was very silly and not something that others could learn from! the problem is that I used a text writer only for testing purposes like:

private TextWriter tw = new TextWriter("c:\Development\events.txt");

And I forgot all about it, and when I try to deploy to a test machine I get a run time error because there is no such path in the other PCs!

Anyway, thanks for wizrr for his efforts in trying to help me out!

Joe

Thank you). And good luck.