Video: How Do I: Prepare for Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Deployment?

Presenter:Steve Hansen

Deploying solutions developed with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005 SE is easier when you have the right tools to help you. In this video, Steve Hansen teaches us how to get and use the three essential utilities you need for experimenting with and troubleshooting VSTO deployments.


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IMC Hanson with office of an outcome this video is how do I prepare for Mr deployment in their shootings that you definitely get a few utilities one is his peers as client troubleshooter this is a utility which will be scans your system to make sure that all the prerequisites for running of a slow solution are met and this utility is specific to office 2003 solutions with the so 2005 harvest of 2005 as he be covering add ins and later videos so for now keep in mind this is specific to the so 2005 2000 privacy with office 2003 after you download the gives us this no client troubleshooter and run the utility is a guy opener just click analyze system that will quickly generate a report telling you how well or whether or not your system meets requirements

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Very conceit which Microsoft office products are installed in self I was doing in Excel 2003 solutions I m all set some operating system analysis information the most notable thing being which net frameworks are installed version 2 leader is required and then switched again more information on the office 2003 so free office suite of 20 professional Professional Edition therefore need to have the primary interop assemblies installed in the other big one that needs to be present is the Visio 2005 runtime component

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Editor this is a sample application which uses the list of server document class which is extremely helpful for experimenting with developing understanding of the relationships between the various deployment related files that still uses likewise extremely helpful for troubleshooting a flawed deployment so when you go to this application efforts at her sample as a download sample link that will download a zipped old self extracting zip file which will give you the source files and see sharp for the application manifest editor sample then you go into Visual Studio go to the folder where you unzipped the package

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And then does build build a solution and then you can just run it every other built and eventually got it or he opens so switch over to that here there s nothing else you need to do you could also uses for office 2007 documents with a minor change right now the file filter is specific to office 2003 files you can find the place in the code that was a change file filter to also include Office 2000 documents so use the application manifest editor you just opened a document with assembling notes of actually open the

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That does not have an assembly with it which is what it owns anything so this document is a distrust in the document and what this lousy dude is to view the embedded application manifests associated with a document using that you can see where the deployment manifest is in and you can trace all the pass between the application manifest and the deployment manifest extremely helpful for troubleshooting for helpful for understanding how the social climate works the other important utility that you need is the net framework 2 0 configuration which if you ve got the net and a logo boxes are in their the net framework SDK this is part of that supernova administrative tools I can find the net framework 2 0 configuration utility

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This allows you to create cast policies on using it GUI now soon to inspect existing test policies so for example here is navigated into the cast policy associate with a product with a reject and I can see that so you re all this and I can see the path to the assembly into the permission set so he deftly one that uses when you re learning about missile deployments and it as your troubleshooting deployments on a development box stream health will make sure that Policies are created away that you expect to that concludes this video be sure to check out the other just a deployment related online videos than crossing a good thing

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