DWalker554476

I have worked through the MSDN articles titled "Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer", which were extremely helpful, but I have an issue when running my setup.exe.

The setup.exe seems to think the Office PIAs are not installed (this is when running on my dev machine, on which the addin has been written and works fine). If I install the PIAs from the setup.exe dialog box, they appear to install succesfully but the next time I run setup it reports again that the PIAs are not installed.

Has anybody else experienced the same problem or can anyone give me advice



Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer

Dennis Wallentin

Hi,

I can confirm I got the same issue which also refer to the KB908002 fix.

At present I'm trying to solve it in a smooth way with the PIACheck.exe (Thanks Douglas!)
which is available here for download (compiled):
http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/archive/2006/05/03/444927.aspx






Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer

DWalker

Dennis,

The article that I used uses ComponentCheck.exe rather than PIACheck.exe. The PIACheck appears to be from an earlier article (under Office 2003 development rather than 2007).

You say that you are 'trying' to solve the problem with PIACheck.exe, does that mean that it has not resolved the issue

Is there actually a siginificant difference between PIACheck and ComponentCheck

Darren





Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer

Dennis Wallentin

Darren,

Sorry for being unclear. PIACheck can only be used with Excel 2003 while ComponentCheck can only be used (at least that is
my interpretation) with Excel 2007.

As I said, I'm learning how to use the PIACheck for setups for Excel 2003.