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    - Office add-ins not running on clients Shouldn't the installer solve this And if not how do I make the installer solve it. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what? Hi Helmut, I am facing a similar situation. Can you please elaborate upon your answer Especially the " You can also use a second pst file for your folders - or public folders on exchange to separate the folders from normal folders " part. As I would like my Document Store Folder Group to be independent of any other ( i.e. start from the root itself ). Thank You in advance, any help would be appreciated. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - add-in not working through setup project Thanks Jeff. Thanks for your reply. I had created my setup project using these two below link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537173(office.11).aspx and part two is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537179(office.11).aspx . Still I am facing same problem. I am using VSTO 2005 SE. please help me. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - MS Word COM object problem Hi Utku, Thanks for your sharing the solution you find. Maybe members here will benefit from it in future! Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Shortcut Key for excel addin Hi Ji, Thanks for your reply and I have gone through the post already and I could not understand it fully as I am very new to .net environment. I have created an excel addin using VSTO SE and below given is a small bit of coding which I have done. ribbon1.xml < customUI xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui " > < ribbon > < tabs > < tab id = " CustomTab " label = " My Menu " visible = " true " > < group id = " MyGroup " label = " My Group " > < button id = " BlueUL " label = " Blue UL " size = " normal " onAction = " MyModule " /> </ group > </ tab > </ tabs > </ ribbon > </ customUI > ribbon1.vb - ribbon callback Public Sub MyModule(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl) Dim ThisWkSht As New Excel.Worksheet Dim rng As Excel.Range ThisWkSht = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveSheet rng = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection Select Case control.Id Case "BlueUL" With rng.Borders(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeBottom) .LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous .Weight = Excel.XlBorderWeight.xlThin .ColorIndex = 7 End With End Select End Sub Now my requirement is to assign "Ctrl + Alt + B" to the button. If you could show a sample vba procedure or some clear walk through on how to assign the shortcut key that would be great. Since I got struck with this thing for so long and the search also doesn't yield good results. Thanks in advance, Mohan Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Change Outlook email address "to" in BeforeCheckNames() A better solution would be to save the item and then use the Recipients collection to perform the necessary modifications. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Looping Through Open Word Documents I am working with Orcas and VSTO Beta 1. I created a new Word document project called TestWord that contains a custom ribbon. If a user has multiple Word documents open at any given time, how can I loop through them and determine which ones, if any, are my custom type containing the ribbon Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Performance/Display issues with Windows Forms Thanks for your response. I don't understand why I would need to give my AddIn a parent WindowHandle - I have not seen this done in any VSTO code samples or solutions... is this something I should be doing in all my VSTO add-in forms The other part of this that I'm unclear on, is that if all the forms work pretty well for me and only hang for this one user, what is causing the Window handle to fail for this user Thanks again. kewpcg Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - PowerPoint 2007 Close Event ??? Hi, I am working on a project which requires me to create an Add-in to work with PowerPoint 2007 . Now here we dont have any event as BeforeClose in PowerPoint like in Word. I want to close PowerPoint on conditional bases from the application. I am using VS 2005, .Net 3.0, Office 2007. Can any one please show me any solution for the same.. Thanks in Advance... Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Outlook Explorer Close event Thanks for response, Greate samples http://www.x4u.de/Outlook/Codesnippets/tabid/61/Default.aspx this is more or less how i implemented the work with explorers. >this is maybe because you keep a reference to an explorer object or an inspector object and then it will never close. What do you mean by sayin "then it will never close" Also i checked and even when i start Outlook ( with one explorer ) and my AddIn is loaded, after short period of time when i see in my log file that AddIn loaded and everythin registered, i close the outlook , and close event not fired. (I didn't open any inspector). I don't know what i doing wrong. TNX Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE Thanks Ji The problem was i had VSTO 2005 SE Runtime installed on my pc (not VSTO 2005 SE) due to which 2007 Add-ins were not showing in the Visual Studio 2005. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Giving Cell Reference for String Thanks Dennis. Let me check. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member ... Hi, I'm currently at loss with this current problem. This is the scenario: I have several c# libraries (all strongly named) in my solution. This solution processes data and serialised the result into a MS SQL Server database. From my VSTO project (using VB.NET) I tried to access the database and deserialise the result back into my object. Everything works until the moment of deserialisation where I get the SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member ... I have a test project that accesses the database and deserialise my object and it is working perfectly fine, so I'm certain that the serialisation/deserialisation code is working, but just not within VSTO framework. Any ideas Cheers, Victor Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Outlook.AppointmentItem.Conflicts - Problem Hi Sue and thanks for your reply. I read about the Find method and find it helpful, but: I'm trying to catch conflicts between appointments before the user make any change. What I'm doing is: In the BeforeItemMove event I save the time of the appointment before the change and in the ItemChange event I want to check if there any other appointment that occurs in this period of time. I wrote this method like that: private void Items_ItemChange( object item) { object objAppointmentItem = null ; try { if (flagItemChange == true ) //flagItemChange is a flag indicate that this event was raised after the BeforeItemMove event { Outlook. AppointmentItem ap = (Outlook. AppointmentItem )item; if (globalAppointmentID != string .Empty) //globalAppointmentID is a variable that keep the GlobalAppointmentID that initialize in the BeforeItemMove event { if (globalAppointmentID.Equals(ap.GlobalAppointmentID)) { string filter = "(('" + ap.Start.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.Start.ToShortTimeString() + "'>[Start] And '" + ap.Start.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.Start.ToShortTimeString() + "'<[End]) Or ('" + ap.End.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.End.ToShortTimeString() + "'>[Start] And '" + ap.End.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.End.ToShortTimeString() + "'<[End]) Or ('" + ap.Start.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.Start.ToShortTimeString() + "'=[Start] And '" + ap.End.ToShortDateString() + " " + ap.End.ToShortTimeString() + "'=[End])) And ('" + ap.GlobalAppointmentID + "' <> [GlobalAppointmentID]) " ; objAppointmentItem = (Outlook. AppointmentItem )_sstFolder.Items.Find(filter); if ((objAppointmentItem != null ) && (((Outlook. AppointmentItem )objAppointmentItem).GlobalAppointmentID!=ap.GlobalAppointmentID)) { ap.Start = start; ap.End = end; ap.Save(); } } globalAppointmentID = string .Empty; } } } catch ( Exception ex) { string message = ex.Message; } finally { if (flagItemChange == true ) { flagItemChange = false ; } } } The problems I have: 1. Error: Condition is not valid . 2. When I replace the " ' " + ap.GlobalAppointmentID + " ' <> [GlobalAppointmentID]) to " ' " + ap.Subject + " ' <> [ Subject ]) the error is not raised but I get no item return even though I'm sure there is another appointment that should be return for the filter I wrote. any recommendation Please help, Iram Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Addin fails to load a DLL which had its version updated. For your information: after rebuild your solution, you can use Publish Wizard to update the deployed assembly, more information you can get from this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1h4c4ebb(VS.80).aspx Thanks Ji Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Reading Excel From C# I would guess: open Excel from your program, and have Excel read the data. Search for Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) for the details. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Can't get most basic VSTO 2005 SE Outlook Add-In to load Hi Pete, You might also want to refer to the following thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=818608&SiteID=1 . I've provided a comprehensive set of things to look for when you encounter this problem. The application in that post is Excel, but the principles are going to be the same. I think (but can't remember for sure) that the error message you are getting is generic. If so, you can set VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS=0 in your environment prior to launching Outlook and you should get the real exception. If I had to guess I would think CAS is still the problem. Remember that the customization must be trusted by all four policies and that AppDomain policy will not grant full trust based solely on All Code or Zone groups. So you will need to explicitly trust the customization by some other means--such as trusting a specific location or a strong name. Sincerely, Geoff Darst Microsoft VSTO Team Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Working With the Outlook.NK2 file Ingressor ( http://www.ingressor.com ) sells a utility for $40 that lets you view and edit the .nk2 file. I just purchased it for the short-term, but was thinking that if they could get to the file programmatically, then we would be able to as well by using VSTO or some other method. I don't want to delete the .nk2 file. I just want to be able to look at the E-mail addresses in there to quickly identify the people our users have corresponded with recently so they could be notified of our new E-mail addresses. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Excel shapes - editing / creating mixed format Hi Jan, Excel is not good with shapes (which is also the case with me ). I assume that You work with a workbook level solution in Orca. Please try the following: Open the workbook in Excel 2007. Add a native worksheet to the workbook. Format and "configure a range in the added worksheet. Copy the range. Swith to the worksheet that will be showing it. Select the command Paste | As Picture... | Past Link Picture Hide the added worksheet. Save the workbook. When You retrieve projectnumber etc from the users You write the information to the range in the hidden worksheet. It will be automatically updated in the visible targeting sheet. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - using VSTO w/ ASP.Net 2.0 Hi Cindy, Thanks for the reply. You are saying there is no Action Pane Control in VSTO2005 SE and need full version of VSTO2005 and with Action Pane Control I could accomplished what I described. Right or need custom task pane to do this which is available with Office 2007 So, using Office 2007 I need VSTO2005 for Office 2007 too How about using xml to do this Loading data to xml and let word read the xml and display it. I found some links which is not clear how this can be done. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa212883(office.11).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa223589(office.11).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa203674(office.11).aspx Dennis Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Collect information using the EntryId ? Ok. Thank you for your answer. But in fact, I find an other solution. Just pass in parameter to my form the object like this Code Snippet Outlook.AppointmentItem apptItem = (selObject as Outlook.AppointmentItem); Appointment frmAppointment = new Appointment(apptItem); But, I had an other question who has different to this problem. Do you know how to convert the attachment in a byte[] because next, I would like to save its into a database. Thank you Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Adding pages to document based on the same template I'm having the same issue here... I want to have a word document with multiple pages from a single page template. Cindy: Is it possible to be more specific I tried to use the InsertFile method w_doc = w_app.Documents.Add(My.Settings.optPathModelesWord & "wd_template_LettreRegroupement.dot) [data insertion in w_doc here ...] w_doc.Range.InsertFile(My.Settings.optPathModelesWord & "wd_template_LettreRegroupement.dot) I guess i'm not using the InsertFile method correctly, because the first page gets replaced each time instead of adding a new page from the template Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Drag / drop file attachment from outlook Using .NET 2.0 I'd assume there is some easy way to accept dropping a file attachment from an outlook email message onto a form I cannot seem to find any good example of this. I see some very convuluded vb 6 methods, surely there is some easy way to do this Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Copy attachments from a email item and put in a task item in outlook. Hi, I'm doing a feature in outlook addin, when I open a email item, I am able to create a task item based on the email item, my code now is able to copy all the data in the mail item and put it into the task item, the only problem I encounter is that I am not able to copy the attachments in the email item into the task item. How am I able to do that Below is the code I already wrote: Outlook. Application outlookApp = new Outlook. Application (); object item = outlookApp.ActiveExplorer().Selection[1]; Outlook. MailItem mail = (Outlook. MailItem )item; //CreateTask Outlook. MAPIFolder tasksFolder = outlookApp.GetNamespace( "MAPI" ).GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. OlDefaultFolders .olFolderTasks); Outlook. TaskItem taskItem = (Outlook. TaskItem )tasksFolder.Items.Add(Outlook. OlItemType .olTaskItem); taskItem.Subject = mail.Subject; taskItem.Body = mail.Body; taskItem.Save(); Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - VSTO 2005 SE Outlook Requirements on End Users Computers Hello Gary, to run an VSTO Outlook AddIn on the target machine you need the following prerequisites installed on the target machine: .Net Framework 2.0 Outlook 2003 Outlook / Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA's) VSTO Runtime Executable (VSTOR.EXE) Also 1 Problem maybe on the target machine are the referenced Dll's If you have OfficeXP on the Machine and only Outlook 2003 installed I'm not sure wich Version of the Office.Core dll is installed. Maybe check this. So, eventually your only option is to setup a development machin that fit's that scenario (OfficeXP & Outlook2003) and develop on that base. Hope this helps, Greets Helmut [http://www.x4u.de] PC-in-a-Keg [http://www.x4u.de/Default.aspx tabid=266] Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - outlook button not opening anything I will try, i know on the other machine when I hit the run button it runs but I cannot debug,etc Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Dynamic Number of RadioButtons in GroupBox This just can't be that difficult. I create a Task Pane and the first thing I want is a set of Radio Buttons -- the number of buttons to be determined by a table of boiler plate language in a DB. So, I create a GroupBox to hold the radio buttons and try the following code: For i = 0 To dtPublisher.Rows.Count - 1 ReDim Preserve rbButtons(i) rbButtons(i) = New RadioButton() rbButtons(i).Text = dtPublisher.Rows(i).ItemArray(TITLE).ToString() Next AbstractControl.gbPublishers.Controls.AddRange(rbButtons) When I'm done, what I get is a single RadioButton, when there should be 4, and it's positioned right on the GroupBox border, obscuring half the GB title. I don't know if all 4 entries are really there but stacked so only the last one shows but in debug mode the rbButtons array is properly initialized. <whine>I have never understood why MS treats radio buttons differently from combo-boxes, drop down lists, or any other multi-choice control. It makes no sense and it's a pain in the neck.</whine> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Randy Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - How to know the current hight of the cell in a Microsoft document via c# program. Thank you for replying. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - VSTO Plugin for Outlook 2003 with Terminal Server VSTO 2005 SE Dear .., We have developed a VSTO 2005SE add-in for Outlook 2003 which works perfects on our machines, but will not work on the Terminal Server (Windows 2003 Server) used by our client. The strange thing is that we don't get a Com-error or something like that, but the Add-On just will not appear in the list with COM Add-Ons in their Outlook 2003 Client . We do the following to add our Add-In to Outlook. 1)Installed the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies redistributable package. 2) Installed the VSTO 2005 3) Installed our plugin. This uses the installer created by VSTO for Visual Studio 2005. 4) Added the Runtime Security policies to .NET 2.0 for our signed DLL's. We give Full Rights to our signed DLL's on the Enterprise, Machine and User 'All Code Groups'. 5) For each user we add the registry keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\OURPLUGIN 6) We Also tried adding the registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\OURPLUGIN 7) Our Setup already installs http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908004/ The LoadBehavior has the value 3 , both in local machine as in Current User. All software is installed using "control Panel/Add Remove programs" with admin rights because it's a terminal server . We have also installed the Add-In on another machine within their organisation (Also Running Windows 2003 Server) and there it's working without any problems. But that Server is not configured as a Terminal Server. I saw many posts of peple whom have the same problem, but still no solution. Do somebody have a solution for this Or is this a bug in VSTO2005 SE which still isn't solved Regards, John Belmer Avance Information Management Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - VSTO - Removing document customisation Thanks for your response. In answer to your first question you can see the code below: 'Actions Pane Constructor Public Sub New ( ByRef ThisDocument As W.Document) InitializeComponent() ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call. cDocs.GetUserCredentials() PopulateCombos( Me .cboSelectPartner, cDocs.GetPartners) Me .cboSelectPartner.Text = cDocs.DefaultUserCode ThisDoc = ThisDocument End Sub 'Document Template Start Up Code Private Sub ThisDocument_Startup( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Startup ucActionPane = New TaskPane( Me ) Me .ActionPane.Controls.Add(ucActionPane) If Me .ProtectionType = Word.WdProtectionType.wdNoProtection Then Me .Protect(Word.WdProtectionType.wdAllowOnlyFormFields, False End If Me .Tag = "Agreement Header" Me .ActiveWindow.View.Type = Word.WdViewType.wdPrintView End Sub Anyway, I have tried using the ServerDocument functions, but initially I was getting a lock violation error, and when I found a work- around it did not remove the customisation or the attached XML, it did not crash or throw any errors but the customisation was still there. I did think that this may have been because the document is protected, but I changed this and it did not seem to make any difference. As to creating another toolbar, I would prefer to only present one toolbar to the end users, and this needs to be visible regardless of whether a VSTO based document is currently loaded, however if the only way to do this is too progromaticalloy add a button to this at runtime then perhaps this is a the way to do it. Unfortunately this project contains 50+ documents, would I need to add this toolbar button to each document and if so how would this be done Thanks Richard Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - Exception with EXCEL 2007 API Thnx for reply Dennis Wallentin , Yes. This problem is because shape does not have a hyperlink value. I tried to figure out exact problem. Here is what exactly happening. In my excel sheet, I have first column which has image added and having hyperlink on that. User clicks on that to open that particular row. When i create Excel sheet, my office interface downloads all values from server side in *.mhtml file (single file web page) and opens it in excel. All columns and images getting exported/displayed in excel 2003 properly but same doesn't work with excel 2007. The images having hyperlink is not getting created in excel 2007 and that's the reason why i am getting that exception. If you open this mhtml file in wordpad it has same text, still this file doesnt open properly in excel 2007. I have copied some part of that mhtml file. See if you can get any info where i am going wrong. <tr ALIGN=3DCENTER VALIGN=3DTOP> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H0H0">Home</th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H1">Name</th> =09=09=09=09<th WIDTH=3D32 BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H0H0"><v:shape style=3D'= margin-left:2;margin-top:2;width:12pt;height:12pt'><v:imagedata src=3D"TcR-= 1.0.1746511703117053_files\Attachment.gif" o:title=3D""/><x:ClientData Obje= ctType=3D"Pict"/> </v:shape></th> =09=09=09=09<th WIDTH=3D32 BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H0H0"><v:shape style=3D'= margin-left:2;margin-top:2;width:12pt;height:12pt'><v:imagedata src=3D"TcR-= 1.0.1746511703117053_files\Trace Link.gif" o:title=3D""/><x:ClientData Obje= ctType=3D"Pict"/> </v:shape></th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H1">Number</th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H0">ROIN</th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H0">Type Name</th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H0">Create User</th> =09=09=09=09<th BGCOLOR=3D#C0C0C0 ID=3D"H1H0">Create Time</th> =09=09=09</tr> ------=_NextPart_01C7460D.387A5950 Content-Location: file:///C:/D4C81145/withImage_files/image007.png Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: image/png Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office
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    - AccessViolationException in DatagridView Hi Cindy, thank you for your reply and sorry for my poor explanation. No, I create and show a Winform with a Datagridview. I do nothing with an Office document. Just for demonstration of this error. And it's a problem that I have on just one of my PC's. It runs on all my other computers. I guess I'm having the same problem I found reportet at: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=93843 Thank you, Frank Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Addin (VSTO) not starting when "outlook.exe" is running with no UI Office

Florian Fogl

Hi,

it seems that this issue has been the topic of many threads (e.g. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=576370&SiteID=1). However, I couldn't find any hint on how to solve this problem.

How to reproduce:

1. Put a "MessageBox.Show()" or a "File.WriteAllText()" in the startup event handler method.

2. Run any application that starts Outlook in the background. The message or the file won't show up. However, the addin's LoadBehavior is set to two.

3. Fire up Outlook (UI) and check the addin state (Tools > Options > Other ...). It's not loaded due to some error.

4. Close Outlook (UI) and close the application that initially started Outlook in the background. The process "outlook.exe" won't shut down and has to be killed manually.

Conclusion:

The addin loader seems to cause the error when Outlook is launched with no UI because the addin code never seems to get called. Moreover, it seems to hold some resources that prevents "outlook.exe" from being terminated.

Question:

Could the conclusion be correct If not, is there any reasonable explanation for this behavior Is there a workaround or a fix for it Please let me know!

Current Setup:

Windows XP SP2

Outlook 2003

VSTO 2005 SE

Many thanks!

Florian

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