Hi Everybody,

I wanted to deploy my VSTO 2005 "Hello World" Excel solution. This is a
simple worksheet without any data and the only functionality it has is to
display the hello world message from the ThisWorkbook_Startup event handler.
Difficult, insn't it ? It works fine from my development computer but as soon
as I try to "deploy" it on any other computer it stops working. I know, there
are a rich set of prerequisities on the target computer to run such a
solution, so the followings are met :

-.Net Framework 2 installed
-Office installed (Small Business Edition)
-Office PIA-s installed
-VSTO Runtime installed
-The required .Net Enterprise security policy is created with caspol, this
way :
++++++
caspol -en -q -ag All_Code -url "file://c:\temp\excelworkbook1.dll"
FullTrust -n "ExcelSolution" -d "Description" -levelfinal on
++++++

When I open the workbook on the target computer, the assembly is not loaded
and there is no error message or any trace of what actually was happening.

Regarding the article
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zcfbd2sk.aspx) there should be
application and deployment manifests for the solution to work. However, there
are no manifests files created until I publish a solution and I believe there
is no need for the manifests until I do not want automated updating process,
because the solution works on my computer without them.

So what is the truth ? What is the simplest way to get it work on one single
computer apart from the developers own ?

Thanks,
Laszlo



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Laszlo, Frank
Technotrade Informatics, Inc.
IT Director
MCSE, CCNA, TCE
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Maybe better luck at microsoft.public.excel.sdk or
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop, as this has little to do with
Excel as such and more to do with .Net deployment.

NickHK

"Lac" ...
Hi Everybody,

I wanted to deploy my VSTO 2005 "Hello World" Excel solution. This is a
simple worksheet without any data and the only functionality it has is to
display the hello world message from the ThisWorkbook_Startup event
handler.
Difficult, insn't it ? It works fine from my development computer but as
soon
as I try to "deploy" it on any other computer it stops working. I know,
there
are a rich set of prerequisities on the target computer to run such a
solution, so the followings are met :

-.Net Framework 2 installed
-Office installed (Small Business Edition)
-Office PIA-s installed
-VSTO Runtime installed
-The required .Net Enterprise security policy is created with caspol, this
way :
++++++
caspol -en -q -ag All_Code -url "file://c:\temp\excelworkbook1.dll"
FullTrust -n "ExcelSolution" -d "Description" -levelfinal on
++++++

When I open the workbook on the target computer, the assembly is not
loaded
and there is no error message or any trace of what actually was happening.

Regarding the article
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zcfbd2sk.aspx) there should be
application and deployment manifests for the solution to work. However,
there
are no manifests files created until I publish a solution and I believe
there
is no need for the manifests until I do not want automated updating
process,
because the solution works on my computer without them.

So what is the truth ? What is the simplest way to get it work on one
single
computer apart from the developers own ?

Thanks,
Laszlo



--
-----------------------------
Laszlo, Frank
Technotrade Informatics, Inc.
IT Director
MCSE, CCNA, TCE
-----------------------------