Add-in Express™
for Microsoft® Office and .net
Deploying your Office solutions based on Add-in Express
Add-in Express supports several technologies and installation types to deploy and redeploy your solutions:
- Windows Installer projects - you can create regular msi-based setup projects with the per-user and per-machine installations.
- ClickOnce publishing - it allows you to create non-admin per-user installations.
- Msi-based web-deployment - it is our own technology (we call it ClickTwice:) ) that is completely based on the Windows
Installer and supports per-user and per-machine web-deployment.
Windows Installer projects
For your solutions based on Add-in Express you can create setup projects using the Project pop-up menu; simply select the "Create setup project" item:
To simplify common tasks such as registering and unregistering your project output, several ready-to-use custom actions are automatically added to
your setup project. These custom actions create all necessary registry keys for you. Add-in Express creates projects that work on Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7 as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008. UAC-related issues are solved.
Add-in Express and ClickOnce
Utilizing the ClickOnce deployment technology, which is a for-the-current-user technology introduced in .NET Framework 2.0, Add-in Express provides a special manifest-driven
ClickOnce module that performs common tasks for add-in deployment. When installed on the user PC, it adds a shortcut to the Start Menu that allows the user to register, unregister,
and check for updates through its default UI. To handle events related to installing, registering, updating, etc, a special ClickOnce module is provided that also allows replacing
the default UI.
ClickTwice:) - msi-based web-deployment
Being completely based on the Windows Installer technology, ClickTwice:) provides you with the maximum flexibility when creating, publishing and updating your solutions. ClickTwice:)
allows you to create per-user and per-machine installations and deploy/redeploy them though Internet or intranet servers.
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