upgrade from Add-in Express 3.7 to 3.8 clickonce features question?

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upgrade from Add-in Express 3.7 to 3.8 clickonce features question?
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Anshul Dutt




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Hi,

I am currently using Add-in Express 2007 for VSTO v3.7 and I want to upgrade to the latest 3.8 version.

Just had a few questions about the clickonce functionality.
Does the new version support prerequisites?

Is there a clickonce option to specify a minimum required version, so that the user gets the latest version of the Add-in automatically and the 'skip' option is not displayed when the add-in is being installed?

Also if there is a document that lists the new features of v3.8 .

thanks in advance.
Posted 08 Jan, 2008 10:04:39 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Anshul.

Does the new version support prerequisites?

No. Most likely we will not add this feature because the latest version of VSTO has fully-supported ClickOnce solution.

Is there a clickonce option to specify a minimum required version

No, the reason is the same as in the previous answer.

Also if there is a document that lists the new features of v3.8 .

Please see our newsletter or read it on our web site.
Posted 08 Jan, 2008 11:21:11 Top
Anshul Dutt




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Hi Sergey,

Just wanted to clarify that by latest version of VSTO you mean the one that ships with .net 3.0 and above(VS 2008)?

If this is correct then I wouldn't have the option to select prerequisites in my clickonce deployment, since I am still using VS 2005 and we don't plan to upgrade to VS2008 before the Add-in is rolled out to the users.

Let me know.

thanks.
Posted 08 Jan, 2008 12:03:24 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Yes, correct.

Ok, we will discuss the possibility of such extension before we publish a new version of the product.
Posted 08 Jan, 2008 12:43:58 Top
Anshul Dutt




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thanks a lot Sergey, please let me know whichever way you and your team decide to go on this issue.

thanks again.
Posted 08 Jan, 2008 12:49:24 Top
Anshul Dutt




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Yes, correct.

Ok, we will discuss the possibility of such extension before we publish a new version of the product.


Hi Sergey,

we were getting close to deploying our add-in and wanted to check with you if a decision was made to include the prerequesites and minimum required features into the latest/next release of add-in express for VSTO.

thanks in advance.
Posted 16 Jan, 2008 10:05:22 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Anshul.

Yes, we decided to include these features in the next build of Add-in Express for VSTO.
Posted 16 Jan, 2008 10:14:03 Top
Anshul Dutt




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Hi Sergey,

Thanks for your response. If you could give me a rough time frame of when the next release would be available, that would be great.This will help me in sketching out my add-in's release to production.

thanks.
Posted 16 Jan, 2008 10:38:29 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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A new build will be published in a week or two.
Posted 16 Jan, 2008 10:48:54 Top
Anshul Dutt




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thanks Sergey.
Posted 16 Jan, 2008 11:20:52 Top