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Mulugeta Meles




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Dear add-in Express Team

I have created an office neutral COMAddIns using Add-in Express 2009. I would like to include ONLY my comaddin dll within other MSI file. Is it possible to include without Interops, adxloader, and some other referenced libraries? If possible how?


Thank You in advance
Mulugheta
Posted 03 Jun, 2009 11:21:30 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Mulugheta,

You can remove corresponding files and exclude corresponding dependencies in your setup project. Can't imagine, though, why do you need this...


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 03 Jun, 2009 12:32:51 Top
Mulugeta Meles




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Dear Andrei Smolin

The reason i needed a single file is that just to replace existing comaddins which is already installed in my customer PC with that single file sothat the comaddin could work just like the old one. As you have suggested, if i remove all those listed files below corresponding dependencies files.
1. Interop.Word
2. Interop.Excel
3. Interop.powerpoint
4. Microsoft.Vbe.Interop
5. AddinExpress.MSO.2005.dll
6. AddinExpress.MSO.2005.tlb
7. AddinExpress.WD.2005.dll
8. adxloader.dll.manifest
9. adxloader.dll
10.extensibility.dll

Do you think my comaddins could work?

Thanks in advance again
Mulugheta


Posted 04 Jun, 2009 04:42:37 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Mulugheta.

No, your add-in will not work. It is not possible to use one file only for .NET based COM add-ins.
Posted 04 Jun, 2009 10:55:50 Top
Mulugeta Meles




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Hi Sergey

Thank you for you quick response.

Do you mean that i have to include all those files ?

I have to include those using existed MSI using wix. Do i need to do some registry things for those add-in express files?

Thank You!
Mulugheta


Posted 05 Jun, 2009 08:48:26 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Mulugheta,

In http://www.add-in-express.com/docs/net-loaders.php, we describe what files you need to have in your setup project. Using this, you don't need to modify the registry yourself.


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 05 Jun, 2009 11:45:01 Top
Mulugeta Meles




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Joined: 2009-02-03
Hello Andrei Smolin

I will try to work on it.

Thank you!
Mulugheta


Posted 09 Jun, 2009 04:59:16 Top