garretth

I was forced to install a product by the name SafeGuard Easy (a whole disk encryption system) on my development PC at work and since them I have been unable to run my VSTO excel projects.

SafeGuard Easy evidently has some kind of issue with Visual Studio 2005 as I was required to removed Visual Studio before SafeGuard would install. After SafeGuard was installed, I was able to reinstall Visual Studio, its service pack and VSTO 2005 SE but now excel addin projects do not launch.

As far as I can tell, the addins for excel simply are not loading. The new() method in the code behind is not firing but there are no error messages either in excel or Visual Studio.

1) I've looked at the security settings for excel and they seem correct
2) I've looked at the LoadBehavior setting in the registry and it is set and stays set at 3
3) I've looked at the Security Policy and I believe all the pertinent entries are set to FullTrust
4) As far as I can tell, Word Addin's are working. At least they launch.

At this point I'm completely stumped and completely blocked from doing any work. I've tried uninstalling the whole VS 2005 installation and reinstalling it but that has had no effect.

Does anyone have any ideas

garrett h


Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Seem Broken After SafeGuard Easy install

garretth

Well, I seem to have fixed the problem though I have no idea what I did. I eventually decided to use the detect and repair function in Office and afterward the excel addins began to behave as they should.

<shrug> garrett h




Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Seem Broken After SafeGuard Easy install

Vadamson

My company is planning to implement SafeGuard Easy. I have some concerns about using it on a developer machine. How Is it working out for you How noticible is the performance decrease if any




Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Seem Broken After SafeGuard Easy install

garretth

The biggest problem was getting it installed and getting VSTO to work again. I had to completely uninstall Visual Studio to get Safeguard to install and then, of course, reinstall everything. There were still some problems after that which I fixed by running the office automagic repair.

As far as performance is concerned, I can say I've seen much degredation. Then again, I'm running off a couple pretty fast SCSI drives in a dual Xeon box. I suspect any reasonably snappy computer will absorb safeguard without too much pain, it's just getting it up and running that may be painful.

Hope this helps, garretth