Video: How Do I: Deploy a VSTO Solution to a Network File Share?

Presenter:Steve Hansen

Join Steve Hansen as he explains the basics of deploying a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) solution to a network file share, and then shows you how to update or rollback a version.


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Feisty dancing with Visio tips that come this video is how do I deploy a Visio document level solution to a network file share to demonstrate and integrating new project here in Visual Basic 2007 and an Excel 2007 workbook of history and a new document members can view the code associated with this workbook just add a few lines here so that I can tell in the application is up and running
Minute 1
Got a simpler simple application and when you go in their case and if you re ready to deploy it one simple way to employ two collects within your workplace is to publish it out to a network file share some of us on a project of the properties item if I go to that and then click on the published have have got a few options here Mexican specify the published location later on for that I want to point out the prerequisites so you can have Visual Studio consider program to install any necessary prerequisites such as the Windows installer net framework and the Visio 3 0 runtime
Minute 2
That that is set by default to download the prerequisites from the component vendor s website also notice the updates button by default it will check for an update every seven days you can change that and you can also choose different units of time such as ours and in weeks as well a more never checked for updates or check every 10 customization runs someone a check every time the customization runs your second demonstrate how updates work some ahead and publicists soon with the build menu will select the published in the published to a server named Zane like a file share their called finance them at greater new directory
Minute 3
To publicists you sin him you specify the UNC representing the installation path and click next and finished snuff I go out to zine under the finance directory I ve got a test at BB directory and within that directory I can see setup program for my prerequisites a Visio deployment manifest and in the copy of the workbook itself so for America neither
Minute 4
And run the workbook oranges can I go a copy for local use on my computer so that all will have an openness when you build a application a Visio application it signed with a temporary key and the publisher for temporary key is unknown so because of got an unknown publisher here I ve got the option to install and uninstall salicylate AP with a well known key and then trust the publisher that we can avoid this dialog box and in any event in England and click install and the application is running an application is running here because of the simple type
Minute 5
A party copied it down to my seat drive know where I can run the application directly off my file share the semi cleverly loaded and the reason is if I can run it directly from the file share as it s not coming from a trusted location so one of things I can do is go to the trust center and a need for Center settings I can add a trusted location some of us that a party techie allow trusted locations online network sometimes do this are when you re deploying to a network file share that you know to be secure some going to Avenue location
Minute 6
And into a visa holders of those locations are also trusted itself I try to run directly from a file share my application is up and running so now let me demonstrate how the update process works so make a simple change your and then publish out to the file share
Minute 7
And and and and and and and and and and and and and demonstrating that I ll go back to the country of the workbook I put in my temporary directory and that this was version 1 last summer and it saw run it again think that s a very quick glimpse of a dialect of action was happening there is census is set to check for a new version or check for updates every time the application runs it checks the deployment manifest out on the file server notices that the should be new version downloads the assembly and then runs the new assembly was a great way to keep
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All of your clients and sink us if I go back out to that directory is he a directory for each version that published some of the things I can do if I want to roll back to version 1 and is all the leaks that whole directory and back to the original directory to the deployment manifest and then the copy of the Excel workbook with no copy back over the files that are there right now
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Want to go back to my out of the workbook and my every directory and you can see the version 2 is gone I just reverted back to version 1 second was his video on how to publish and deploy a Visio got a little solution to a network file share by frosting every day

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