Deploying an Excel application level VSTO add-in via ClickOnce
If you are new to VSTO deployment then this simple little screencast (just under 14 mins) may help. It covers the scenario of deploying an application level add-in via ClickOnce to a network share, and then the experience a user would have installing it.
TechEd 2008 – Session DEV320: Deploying VSTO v3 Applications
This is one of the demos Andrew Coates and I will be giving in our TechEd session (next Wed 3 Sep at 4pm for those interested).
In our session we cover all the security and trust issues around VSTO deployment (you can download an earlier version of the PowerPoint from Andrew’s blog here). We cover ClickOnce, MSI and SharePoint scenarios. However, we only have time to demo the ClickOnce and SharePoint scenarios. I’m planning on doing a screencast of the MSI process at a later stage (leave a comment if this is of interest to you).
Andrew and I had a practice run through last week, and I recorded the demo parts. The first demo is available now (below).
Screencast
You can view it a few ways.
- You can view the Vimeo hosted version (or see below), but be aware this is lower res.
- If you want the original 1024 x 768 resolution then click here to view it (Recommended!).
- You can also download the WMV file (16.1 MB).
Acknowledgements: Andrew came up with most of the examples, so if you find the demo helpful then chances are he’s the reason! And if there’s excessive woffle or mistakes, then that’d be my input :-)
Any comments?
I hope this helps.
I’m always keen to improve my demos and presentations. If you have any advice or feedback I’d love to hear it. In fact I might try to organise a little prize for the best bit of feedback… please leave comment against this post.
(UPDATE: Here’s the Deployment via SharePoint screencast)
Hi Craig
When we deploy the customized document on a sharepoint site, as I saw in your video and then a user opens it the first time from his machine, does he have to manually make the Trust Center settings in the MS word installed on his machine or will it be transparent to the user.
Thanks
Vartika
Hi Craig,
Great tutorial.
What i’m currently struggeling with is configuring the IIS. I can’t find a way to configure the IIS in a way the user have acess to the files. Also the files at the web page are not displayed which seems to be becuase the users have no access to this location. But the share behind the URL is acessable so it must have to do with the configuration. Does anybody know a good tutorial for configuring the IIS in the correct way to get that deployment way running?
Kind regards
Thomas
Hey Craig…
Thanks for your Video…its really nice and easy way to learn…
I tried what you showed with application level addin. Everything went well….but when I updated text and published it again and opened my excel to changed text…I got error message asking me to uninstall last version with below given exception text
Would be grateful…please help out.
Thanks…Vikram
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Exception Text **************
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.AddInAlreadyInstalledException:
The customization cannot be installed because another version is currently
installed and cannot be upgraded from this location. To install this version of
the customization, first use Add or Remove Programs to uninstall this program: ExcelDynamicControls.
Then install the new customization from the following location:
file:///C:/Users/vikram/Desktop/ExcelDynamicControls/ExcelDynamicControls/bin/Release/ExcelDynamicControls.vsto
  at
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.ClickOnceAddInDeploymentManager.VerifySolutionCodebaseIsUnchanged(Uri
uri, String subscriptionId, Boolean previouslyInstalled)
  at
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Deployment.ClickOnceAddInDeploymentManager.InstallAddIn()
Hi  Craig,
Do you have any material or video showing this exact same thing, but when you’ve referenced DLL’s? I’ve built a PowerPoint Add-in that uses the SharePoint Client Side Object Model to get data from SharePoint. It work perfectly on my machine, but when other users try it, it can’t find the Sharepoint client DLL. Is that as simple as setting it to COPY TO LOCAL” on the DLL’s or is there something deeper having to do with full trust that I need to setup? I’m also using ClickOnce. Thank You!