Friday, October 3, 2008

Adding the Office Primary Interop Assemblies as a Prerequisite in your ClickOnce installer

Adding the Office Primary Interop Assemblies as a Prerequisite in your ClickOnce installer

This Article stands for
  • How to include a visual studio specific prerequisite (KB908002) ?
  • FIX: Add-ins, smart documents, or smart tags that you create by using Microsoft Visual Studio do not run in Office.
  • How to Add office 2003 / 2007 PIA as prerequisite for the deployment of Office plug-in.
  • Office AddIn MSI Deployment - Issues with Prerequisites
Following are the steps.
  1. Download the prerequisite packages from rapidshare: download rar

  2. Extract all to the %ProgramFiles%Microsoft SDKsWindowsv6.0ABootstrapperPackages

  3. It should create 3 folders KB908002, O2003PIA, and Office2007PIA inside packages folder.

  4. now restart your visual studio and check your deployment project prerequisites, and select dependencies you want to add.



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3 comments:

Angee said...

thank you!

somewherepeace said...

thank you!
it's useful for me.
how can i add the office sp1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47&displaylang=en
)
as a prerequisite in my ClickOnce installer

Anonymous said...

dude... if this works, much appreciated.