"rhodinar" wrote:

Well Matt, thanks for the whole reply ...

No probs, you're welcome

The only thing that I've explained bad it's that when I'm saying "whole
funtionality", it doesn't include the functions.

Okay, that sort of explains things...

I can't call them anyway ( only marking the class in the
add-ins-automation ). When they're visible I can call them.

Aha, but that's pretty encouraging -- surely, the Add-In Manager doesn't do
anything that you cannot do yourself, programmatically. So even though it's
annoying not to know exactly which calls or which reg keys are still missing,
it's nevertheless good to see that it is indeed possible to use your add-in
in exactly the way you intended.

You can always snoop on what's happening in the Windows Registry by using
tools from SysInternals. That way you can listen on what the Add-In Manager
is up to when you manually install the COM add-in. That's obviously just a
tip -- I don't know whether or not Excel actually needs to fiddle with the
Reg to make this work.

However, if the COM add-in somehow needs to be installed on a per-user basis
rather than on a per-machine basis then you may run into pretty severe
problems: if you're planning to let Administrators install the add-in on user
machines then the user may still have to take care of the final part of the
installation him-/herself, which more or less sums up to going into the
Add-In Manager (sigh!)

I'll take a look to the links and I'll tell you my progress ( if any
;-) ).

As always, good luck to you...

Thanks again for your help.
Julio

Any time,
/MP