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    - Registry entries for all users (Outlook add-in) Good day! Is it possible to disable the 'Remove' button from the Add-Ins dialog box for a specific add-in Probably an additional registry entry So that the user would have to explicitly re-run the installer to remove the add-in from the machine. Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Method to refresh/update Word toolbar state I did try that but it didn't work! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - How to Add custom information in an appointment item using VSTO SE Outlook 2003 Addin ? Hi, I am creating a VSTO SE Addin for Outlook 2003 and i want to store some custom information in the form of Key-Value pair in every appointment item i have. Can anybody tell me is this possible to achieve this Thanks in advance. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Copying RTF into word and from word to a richtext box using c# Does anyone know of a way to transform RTF to WordML and transform WordML to RTF Is there a streamlined way to accomplish this Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - connecting excel file to C++ program Hi nicelily In addition to Steve's recommendations, if you need help generally with C++ the place to ask questions is the Windows Developer newsgroups. Start here http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ole&lang=en&cr=US To see other newsgroups, click "Windows Development" at the left, then choose Windows SDK. You'll find a number of win32 newsgroups, listed by topic. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Which "Event Handler-adding" code is more appropriate for my application add-in? Hi Cindy, thanks for catching my oversight - somehow that use of uiConvert didn't make my first cut-and-paste attempt. [I've added it back, and tabbed the code appropriately to make it slightly more readable.] It was a little too obvious, though, that I hadn't used the variable in my actual code - I just double-checked that it was still in the compiled project, and yet I'm still not seeing the Click event causing my click-enclosed code to fire. I'll try the AddHandler approach - perhaps that'll work better than what I've got right now. Thanks again! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - COM Exception Error Hello Cindy, thank you for your reply, The end user has Microsoft Office 2003 Professional edition. At start up of the VSTO add-in, I am populating XML nodes that are part of a document template with data from a Sql Server 2005 database. The Word template file is a Word template that has an XML schema attached to it and uses my dll code behind file to populate the Word template. I would also like to comment that on the end user's machine, the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll did not exist in the GAC so I had to add it to the root directory of the application. Would this have anything to do with it Steve Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - VSTO SE 2005 Runtime Setup for Windows VIsta HI, I want to install VSTO SE 2005 Runtime Setup for Windows VIsta. But on its download page, Windows vista is not listed in the supported OS. Is there a seperate runtime for Windows Vista Regards Kulvinder Singh Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Publish deployment issue I'm getting an error message intermittantly when publishing my application Could not load file or assembly ..., Version=1.1.2692.18376, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=...' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Fusion Log Data: Successful load- LOG: Assembly Name is: , Version=1.1.2692.18376, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=205848d03db232df LOG: Binding succeeds. Returns assembly from C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Local Settings\Application Data\assembly\dl3\3MDEK0QZ.57D\D1GG5QL9.GKL\67c4e139\00df0250_c797c701\.dll. LOG: Assembly is loaded in default load context. Unsuccessful load attempt: LOG: Assembly Name is: , Version=1.1.2690.28864, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=205848d03db232df WRN: Comparing the assembly name resulted in the mismatch: Revision Number ERR: The assembly reference did not match the assembly definition found. ERR: Setup failed with hr = 0x80131040. ERR: Failed to complete setup of assembly (hr = 0x80131040). Probing terminated. I havn't been able to isolate under what conditions it happens and what conditions it doesn't, but I am attempting to do so. My thoughts are that it may be to do with potentially having recompiled the referenced project separately, yet when the publish function is run, it recompiles the project to be published but doesn't include the latest assembly for the referenced project. Not certain tho. Would greatly appreciate any input/insight into how to resolve the issue. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Cache data in workbook created from addin Adding to the comments given by Cindy, she is basically right, there are however some working methods that allow you to make things work. What you could do is create a Template with VSTO containing several cache entries to your own liking and have another addin create documents based on this template. After creating the document containing the cache entries you can access these cache objects through the ServerObject interface. When the document is then opened the data is available to work with. I'm not sure this fits in your scenario and hope I gave you some hints here to get you going ... -= Maarten =- Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - A question about office clipboard Hi, The Office clipboard is not a paste destination. It is simply a clipboard viewer. Any time an object is placed on the windows clipboard, the Office clipboard viewer receives a WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE notification and responds by copying the data to its own private clipboard implementation. There isn't any really good way to know whether the clipboard is being accessed by the Office clipboard viewer or in response to a paste. Any possible solution would be little more than a guess and even if it worked, it would be at risk to be broken in a future version of Office since you would be relying on behavior we don't document. Sincerely, Geoff Darst Microsoft VSTO Team Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - how to implement "in-Ribbon" Gallery ? I have almost read http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/default.aspx messages all. But I don't know how to implement "in-Ribbon" Gallery (that's like home styles in word 2007 ) At "2007 Microsoft Office System UI Design Guidelines - Evaluation.doc",they said there were two styles about Gallery ,that's " dropdown " and " in- Ribbon ".Could you tell me how to set " in- Ribbon " Gallery with xml thank you Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Excel Edit Delete Disabled Thank you for your feedback. You should not be seeing this behavior with solutions with ListObject in VSTO SE 2005 runtime . We have made some fixes in this region. When ListObject is activated it disables the Edit->Delete option, because deleting columns in databound ListObjects is not allow. However, it re-enables the option once ListObject is not in active focus. You should be able to delete non-ListObject cells, rows, and columns in any case. Let me know if this helps! Thanks, Nikhil Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Publishing VSTO 2005 SE addin to a network location Rakesh, I've achieved what you describe but it was tricky First thing I recall is that if you publish to a network location there is an issue that if the network is unavailable when you load your application/addin, your addion is disabled. This is incredibly frustrating. What this means is that the files are not actually copied to your local machine and are run directly off the network which is not ideal for isntances where you want to work offline. Here is what I did. 1. I created a setup project as normal. (This is how you take care of registry, security policy and inital setup of manifest and files) 2. I then created my own updater class that I call from the addin_startup which checks the local manifest file against the manifest file in the publish location (compare the versions). 3. If the version is newer, I use xDirectory ( http://www.codeproject.com/cs/files/xdirectorycopy.asp ) to copy the contents of the publish directory (based upon the version of course) into the local machine directory. 4. I wrote a small application that is launched by my addin which passes details such as the process id and file that is open 5. This app then stops the running process and restarts it with the file that was open Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - WordApp.Selection.Range.set_Style throws exception Well, I modified the code and tried these ways: Code Block styleHeading2 = "Heading 2"; styleHeading3 = "Heading 3"; First way: Code Block WordApp.Selection.TypeText("Test text."); WordApp.Selection.Range.set_Style(ref styleHeading2); //still throws an exception Second way: Code Block WordApp.Selection.TypeText("Test text."); object o1 = doc.Sentences[1].Start; object o2 = doc.Sentences[1].End; Range range = doc.Range(ref o1, ref o2); range.set_Style(ref styleHeading3); Both threw an exception of not founding the element.What else could I do Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Excel Solver macro from VB.NET I've found the reason for the error, thanx to http://www.officehelp.in/ It seems the Solver.XLA needs to be explicitly opened before it can be used. This is done automatically when we open the excel manually, but when we use objects, we have to open it using the following command oExcel.Run("Solver.xla!Auto_Open") Once this was done my application started working as expected... The other error was also cleared... Regards, Dinesh Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Interact with MS Access using VB Ok. Thanks for your help. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - execute a vsto project on a remote machine A couple of quick notes for anyone else reading this post that reflect a bit of what MathMax and I worked through off-line. The most important thing to recognize is that deployment has changed for the better in VSTO 3 / Office 12. Customizations are now written to the Click-Once cache, so there is no longer any need to muck around with CAS settings. Deploying a VSTO customization is now a simple process: 1) Use the deployment wizard to generate the necessary deployment files and push them to the install location. 2) Ensure that the prerequisites exist on the target machine; .Net FX 3.5, VSTO 3.0 Runtime, and Office applications and PIAS. 3) Run the generated setup.exe (or double-click on the deployment manifest) on the target machine--this will install the customization to the local Click-Once cache. 4) Copy the document to the desired location and open (your customization should run). If you wish to run the document from a network share, the share must be added to trusted locations in the Office Trust Center. Complete documentation for VSTO 3.0 (Beta 2) deployment can be found here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386179(VS.90).aspx Note that Office 11 projects are still stuck with the VSTO 2.0 deployment model. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Highlighting the active field in the task pane this a document-level customization... I am using Excel 2003 Lets say the user clicks on the Text Field "F1" and there are total 5 user control text fields to the task pane. So we want is when the user selects the user control "F1" only this control should be enabled and all the other fields should be disabled. Thanks, Sandeep Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - What about Macs? Hi, Is there any way to port my Office VSTO customization to Apple Mac platform I'm completely ignorant about macs, and now I am asked about it, and I need help. So, is there the equivalent MS Office 2003 for Mac which supports customizations and also whether there is .NET framework for Mac that can run VSTO assemblies Thanks Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - building outlook toolbar in contacts is there a way to do it using explorer as that is how ive set it up atm Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Excel Automation: How to use an external link as an argument in a user-defined function? Using VSTO2005SE, I created an automation add-in that contains a user-defined function. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume the UDF takes a single cell address as its argument and then multiplies its value by 1000. Public Function MyFunc( ByVal Range As Object ) As Double Dim dblY As Double = CType (Range, Excel.Range).Value * 1000 Return dblY End Function When entered into a worksheet cell (e.g., A1: =MyFunc(B1) ), the UDF obediently takes the value in B1 and returns it, times 1000. The UDF also works fine if the value shown in B1 originates from an external link to another workbook. However, the UDF returns a #VALUE! error, if the external link is used as an argument within the function, while the other workbook is not open: =MyFunc('X:\[ExtLinkSource.xls]Tabelle1'!$A1) --> #VALUE! If the other workbook is open, the UDF throws no error: =MyFunc([ExtLinkSource.xls]Tabelle1!$A1) --> returns correct result Incidentally, this is also the standard behavior for some of Excel's built-in worksheet functions, such as OFFSET or INDIRECT - these are known to not work with external links, unless the other workbook is open, unlike SUM or INDEX. Does anybody know how a user-defined function can adopt the behavior of the SUM function and the like, i.e. retrieving a cell value from a closed external workbook I know that cell contents can be retrieved from a closed workbook using ADO.NET, but I'm looking for something not quite so clumsy. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Docx to Clean HTML thanks Phil, I'll look at the links. There were no Office / Word specific forums on this site hence I wanted to double check is VSTO provided me some help. I'll try hunting down a Word News Group. Unfortunately it's very sad that even in the year 2007 - word can't generate clean HTML! Regards, Saurabh Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Fuzzy text in a label control Hi Dennis, It happens during design time when I put a label on the sheet. If I then run it, it still looks fuzzy when running. I haven't tried just popping a label on a sheet during run time, so I don't know if that will help. For what it's worth, I abandoned this and decided to put my controls on the Actions Pane instead. I think it works better there anyway. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Items and controls in Excel 2007 with VSTO SE Thanks Dennis, very helpful! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Issue in Excel report generation Hi, We recently migrated to Excel 2002 from Excel 2000 and are facing a wierd problem in the excel report generation through our Java code -- Using MIME type Excel. The issue is while generating the report after certain number of rows the values in the cells loses its numeric characteristics even though same code is used repetetively to display the all the rows. The data is absolutely fine and is working fine in Excel 2000. So it would be great if any one can help me to give an insight into what is causing this problem. Thanks in advance, Raghu Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Event Handlers and UDFs in the automation add-ins Hi, Great ..thanks to this site for helping. I have an issue and have followed the following approach to create automation add-in. http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2004/12/01/273127.aspx . and created following code using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Microsoft.Win32; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; using System.Reflection; using System.Diagnostics; namespace lnzv2 { [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDual)] public class wsf { Excel.DocEvents_ChangeEventHandler EventDel_CellsChange; Excel.Application xlApp; Excel.Workbook xlBook; Excel.Worksheet xlSheet1, xlSheet2, xlSheet3; public wsf() { myInitialization(); } public void myInitialization() { xlApp = new Excel.Application(); xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add(Missing.Value); xlBook.Windows.get_Item(1).Caption = "XL Event Test"; xlSheet1 = (Excel.Worksheet)xlBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1); xlSheet2 = (Excel.Worksheet)xlBook.Worksheets.get_Item(2); xlSheet3 = (Excel.Worksheet)xlBook.Worksheets.get_Item(3); xlSheet2.Activate(); EventDel_CellsChange = new Excel.DocEvents_ChangeEventHandler( CellsChange); xlSheet1.Change += EventDel_CellsChange; // ........question1 } private void CellsChange(Excel.Range Target ) { Target.Value2=10;; } public int NumberOfCells(object Range) { int [,] TheValues = new int[1, 1]; TheValues[0, 0] = 1; TheValues[0, 1] = 2; TheValues[1, 0] = 3; TheValues[1, 1] = 4; Excel.Range r = Range as Excel.Range; r.set_Value(Missing.Value,TheValues);//......question2 return r.Cells.Count; } } } Given question1 I am unable to invoke the event.So please give me an idea how the event can be used and correct me if i am wrong. In question2 I am unable to get the value in the cells of the given range passes in the function and it gives an error in the cell where i have written the UDF =NumberOfCells(b2:c3). Please give a heling hand. thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Range.get_Information() always throws an exception Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. But I still have the same problems. But I can add more data. a) I followed the suggestions and they had no effect. It appeared the newest Office 2007 Primary Interop assemblies were the same version as I had. b) I tried building the same source on another WinXP SP2 system using VS C# 2005 Express, with Office 2003 . Same problem, Range.get_Information(xx) throws same exception. Note the system has the Word 11 assemblies, not Word 12. I assume Word 12 is for Office 2007, Word 11 is for Office 2003. c) I then wrote a test program in VB. Surprise, it worked. See code below. Sub Main() Dim theApplication As New Word.Application Dim doc As Word.Document = theApplication.Documents.Open( "c:\usr\tmp\csa\Tip116R1.doc" ) Console.WriteLine( "Just opened {0}." , doc.Name) Dim r As Word.Range = doc.Content Dim maxPage As Integer = _ r.Information(Word.WdInformation.wdNumberOfPagesInDocument) Console.WriteLine( "Number of pages ({0})" , maxPage) Dim f As Word.Find = r.Find() f.Text = "Enhancement Number" f.MatchWholeWord = True f.Wrap = Word.WdFindWrap.wdFindStop Do While f.Execute() Console.WriteLine( "Found {0} at position {1},{2}." , _ f.Text, r.Start, r.End) Dim currentPage As Integer = _ r.Information(Word.WdInformation.wdActiveEndAdjustedPageNumber) Console.WriteLine( "Current page ({0})" , currentPage) Loop End Sub So what can one infer from this a) if the problem was in the COM libraries or primary Interop assemblies I would have expected the problem to be the same in VB as in C#. b) if the problem was poor/buggy support for Office 2007, that I would have expect the code ported to the second system with Office 2003 to work with C#, expecially as it appears the code examples from my reference (VTSO for Office , by Carter and Lippert) where build with Office 2003. c) clearly I'm missing something but what Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - DllUnregisterServer issue; err code 0x80070005 We've got that problem : When we tried to unregister a COM object (compiled with VC7 (after porting fromp VC6)), (regsvr32 /u NameOfComObject.dll ) the error 0x80070005 was fired. This error was not fired when we try to unregister the COMobject compiled with VC6 compiator. This code means access denied. In our case, it deals with a regirty key that you can't remove because usually you're COM object is not the one which created it. So in your rgs file (NameOfComObject.rgs) try to find which key must be declared as NoRemove. So if your code is something like : HKLM { Software { Microsoft { Office { 11.0 { Word { 'NameOfComObject' it should be converted in : HKLM { NoRemove Software { NoRemove Microsoft { NoRemove Office { NoRemove 11.0 { NoRemove Word { ForceRemove 'NameOfComObject' Hope this was helpfull. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - OCS 2007 Forums Still Down As reported last week, the OCS 2007 forums are down and still down. Any idea when these forums will be back up And please - can we get NNTP access to the forums Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Catching email being sent using RibbonX control Hi Helmut Many thanks for your reply. Please forgive my inexperience but this is all new to me,a dn without knowing the terminology it's sometimes hard to find the right answer. I think what you are suggesting is a sink for ApplicationEvents, so I shall have a look at this. Best regards Jamie Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office
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    - Adding a context menu item for a chart in Excel? I verified that Object/Plot was what I was looking for by iterating through its commands and that I actually want a msoControlButton by verifying that one of the menu items, "Assign Macro..." is of that type. When I add my own I get no error (but if I do something wrong like pass an incorrect parameter in place of one of the missing params I do), and when I create an empty chart and right-click on it I see the typical menus including Assign Macro... but not my own. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines Office

Bpoit

I have created VSTO addin and have successfully deployed it to most machines in my office. The addin adds a command bar button to the standard tool bar. On select machines the addin crashes outlook on startup. I have the startup code enclosed in a try catch to handle possible errors but it seems I cannot handle this error.

EventType clr20r3, P1 outlook.exe, P2 11.0.8010.0, P3 43d16d53, P4 system, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 4333ae87, P7 5a2, P8 0, P9 system.io.filenotfoundexception, P10 NIL.

When I strip out all code besides a msgbox call in the application startup method, the addin starts up fine and displays the msgbox, but then when outlook is closed the addin crashes outlook in a simmilar fashion as when it crashes on startup. I have been unable to find any differences between the affected machines and other machines in the office.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines

Bpoit

Found out the problem was the select machines did not have the Microsoft Office PIA's installed. I ran the install for the assemblies and the addin worked.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Addin crashing outlook on select machines

mobigital

I used to run my vsto excel sheet without Excel PIAs installed, but now it crashes Excel without them (DUH!!!- MS please prevent excel from crashing).

Is there something in the VSTO application that requires PIAs

I added ActionsPane utilization recently, could that have added the PIA requirement