Using Advanced Installer for VSTO project

[varunchaddha]

Hi

I'm new to Advanced Installer and am trying to create an MSI Setup project for a VSTO Solution which installs a toolbar Addon for Multiple office applications (Excel and Word).

In Office Add-in project wizard of Advanced Installer, when I import my solution it shows me Both Projects Excel and Word as output but when I try to select it does not support multi-selection, and only allows single output selection.

Please provide me some way or a tutorial that will allow me to package and install Excel and Word Addon from single setup?

Looking forward to some help ...

[Bogdan]

Hi and welcome to our forums,

Thank you for your interest in Advanced Installer.

Unfortunately Advanced Installer does not have any predefined support for installing a VSTO addon for multiple Office applications. However, there is a something that you can try.

First, use the wizard to create a setup project for your addon, and select as target application just one of your apps, for example Excel.
Then go to Registry page in Advanced Installer, here you will some entries automatically generated by us, as a result of your wizard options. You will find a key "Microsoft", under it you will find another key with the name of the application, i.e. "Excel". Duplicate the entries starting with key that holds the name of the application, but rename it to your second application, i.e. "Word". Then build and try the package.

Regards,
Bogdan

[varunchaddha]

Yes it works if I do a manual entry for other project types.

[Bogdan]

I'm glad to hear that. In a future version we shall try implementing support in our wizards to allow multiple target selection.

Regards,
Bogdan

[Bogdan]

I noticed a lot of users need to install Office add-ins in for multiple applications so the improvement was added on our TODO list, to automate this step too.
It should be available by this summer. Stay tuned to this thread as I will post an update when the feature is implemented.

Regards,
Bogdan

[Bogdan]

@varunchaddha: Can you please contact me by e-mail at support at advancedinstaller dot com? I've started working on the improvement I mentioned in this thread and would have a couple of questions that will help us establish a better design for our multiple add-in support.

Regards,
Bogdan