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Aaron Browne




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Hi,

I just purchased and downloaded Add-In Express 2007 last week. Very nice product.

I have a project with Excel (AddinModule). Everything runs and installs fine on my machine. However, when I install on another machine, I get the following error after installation when I bring up Excel. All machines have Excel 2003:

The loader can't load the following assembly: 'ProjectName, PublicKey Token= B4F5265272C5607A'. The operation fails with HRESUT = -2146234105'.

I already installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
-Aaron
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 02:22:28 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Aaron.

Did you include the 'Shared Add-in Support Update for .NET v2.0' prerequisite in the setup project? If so, please run the setup.exe file to install the add-in on the target PC.
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 07:06:31 Top
Aaron Browne




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Thanks Sergey.

Yes, I checked that Shared Add-in Support Update for .NET v2.0 is included as a project prerequisite.

I double checked to make sure this was installed as well as even manually ran the Shared Add-in Support Update installer.

Any other ideas?

thanks again,
-Aaron
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 10:46:35 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Aaron, do you have the excel.exe.manifest file located in the Office startup directory?
Please send me the adxloader.log file. You can find it in the .\My Documents\Add-in Express directory.
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 11:22:24 Top
Aaron Browne




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I was running the msi file and not the Set Up file, so the Add-in support was not getting installed. It works now!! :-)

I have to say that I am really impressed with your product. I have done a lot of VSTO development in the past, and this is much better without so many client side requirements. And you can't beat the price ;-)

Great job!!
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 11:23:54 Top
Aaron Browne




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Do I need to have an Office Startup directory? I currently do not have one.

thanks,
-Aaron
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 11:46:14 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Aaron, if you have Office 2003 installed, the startup directory is '.\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\'.
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 12:04:59 Top
Aaron Browne




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Thanks. Yes, I have that directory, but no I do not have excel.exe.manifest.

I do have excel.exe :-)

Should I have excel.exe.manifest? Everything appears to be working correctly now.
Posted 13 Sep, 2007 12:18:59 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Aaron.

If you use VS 2005, you don't need the manifest.
Posted 14 Sep, 2007 10:26:59 Top