Posts Tagged ‘Deployment’
Video: Implementing a custom UI for Office add-ins with ClickOnce
Ty Anderson | September 22nd, 2011
Sometimes I get on a roll. Currently that roll is "customizing deployment packages". Yesterday, I subjected you to a video that shows you how to customize a ClickTwice deployment to include a EULA (among other things). Today, I have some ClickOnce goodness for you... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Customizing a ClickTwice deployment package of your Office add-in
Ty Anderson | September 21st, 2011
When you build an Office add-in, your users' first impression will be based on the installation experience. I know…it isn't fair…but it's true. This fact means they will judge your app before they have encountered it. So you need to provide a quality installation experience
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How to allow a user to choose target MS Office applications during installation
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 5th, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can customize your add-in setup project to allow your users to select which Microsoft Office applications the add-in will be installed for. I am using Add-in Exprewss 2010 for Office and .net... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Fully featured setup projects for Office solutions
Ty Anderson | May 26th, 2011
It's well known that Add-in Express simplifies Office development via our support for multiple types of Office based solutions. But perhaps you don't know that one of our best features is how we simplify deployment via support of 4 base deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | March 1st, 2011
This is the final part of the series that describes all possible ways of deploying your Add-in Express-based Office extensions. I recommend that you begin from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions: Overview. Or, if you are interested only in ClickTwice :) deployment, you can start right away with Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice :)... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions via ClickTwice
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 28th, 2011
Part 7 of the deployment series explains how you can use your favorite installer software to deploy your Office extensions over the web; this is the essence of ClickTwice :). If you didn’t read the previous parts of the series, I'd advise that you start with Part 1 - a brief overview of the available deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via Group Policy
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 25th, 2011
This is part 6 of the deployment series that targets corporate deployment techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via Group Policy. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Redeploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
This is part 5 of the series of articles which describes all possible ways of deploying your Office extensions based on Add-in Express. I recommend you starting from the very beginning: Step-by-step deployment of Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via ClickOnce
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 24th, 2011
In part 4 of the deployment series I will show you how to deploy your per-user Office extension using ClickOnce. Before we proceed, I recommend that you read Part 1 for a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 3 of the deployment series that provides step-by-step instructions for deploying your per-machine Office extensions via an MSI installer. I recommend that you start with reading Part 1 that gives a brief overview of all deployment technologies... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
This is part 2 of the series that covers all possible ways of deploying Add-in Express based Office extensions. Part 1 provided a brief overview of the available deployment technologies and now we are going to have a close look into deploying per-user Office extensions via an MSI installer... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying Office extensions – step-by-step guide
Renat Tlebaldziyeu | February 22nd, 2011
The table below gives an overview of the main features supported by the above mentioned technologies that you can use for deploying your Add-in Express based Office extensions... Read the rest of this entry →
Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10
Maurice Calvert | January 25th, 2011
In part 2: Avoiding VSTO, I lauded Add-in Express for having such an easy interface to create a Steup Project. I stand by what I said, but GeodesiX goes a fair bit further than just implementing a few Excel UDFs. The problem that have to address is... Read the rest of this entry →
Deploying your Add-in Express solutions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 10th, 2010
What we as developers often leave as an afterthought or the very last task on our list when developing applications, is the deployment and installation of our products. In our enthusiasm to "get the product out of the door" we forget that... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express deployment models – ClickOnce and ClickTwice :)
Ty Anderson | November 12th, 2010
A good speech requires a good ending. The same is true for software. You invest a significant amount of time building a software solution so don’t mess it up when it comes to your deployment. Add-in Express provides two methods for deploying your addins: ClickOnce and ClickTwice. This video does three things for you... Read the rest of this entry →
From VB6 to .NET. At last…
Andrei Smolin | August 13th, 2010
In one of my previous lives, I was a VBA and VB6 developer: ReDim, InStr, Msgbox, If Not Obj Is Nothing and other ugly things were part of that nice life. Now I live another life and have both VB.NET and C# experience gradually shifting to C#. If you are a late wayfarer on the [...]... Read the rest of this entry →
