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VSTO: My Favorite Feature - ClickOnce Deployment

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One of my favorite features in the latest version of VSTO is ClickOnce Deployment. ClickOnce deployment makes securely deploying my Office add-in and document level solutions easy. VSTO deployment supports, Local, HTTP, UNC, CD/DVD and USB locations. This gives you the flexibility to deploy your application where it makes sense for you.  Deployment also supports offline, automatic updating and rollback. Oh, I know that it was challenging in the past. But now in VSTO Orcas all of that CASPOL messiness is behind us. Still can't believe it, let's walk through a simple deployment scenario.

1. Create a new VSTO project.

2. Run the Publish Wizard

3. Or Set the Publish properties for more control

4. Install the published Add-in

5. Allow the add-in to install

6. Done! It's installed and trusted

7.Run Office

You can verify that the add-in is installed and running.

That's it. Super simple. The next CTP and Beta 2 of Visual Studio Orcas will contain all of the new deployment features of VSTO.

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  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2007
    That looks very promising. One of the major pain points in previous versions was moving stuff around. How does this impact the installations if say I moved my deployment stuff from \server1here-deployed-originally to \server2and-now-i-want-it-here ? -= Maarten =-

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2007
    Paul Stubbs blogs about how easy we made deployment in VSTO Orcas. http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs/archive/2007/05/17/vsto-my-favorite-feature-clickonce-deployment.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2007
    Very nice feature... Can Outlook Add-Ins be created with the Express Editions (beta)?

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2007
    Hi, Good question. VSTO add-ins can only be created with Visual Studio Pro or above.

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2007
    The VSTO team have made a great work by eliminating most of the deployment complexity - thank You. Kind regards, Dennis

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2007
    Do Office 2003 Add-Ins (ie Outlook 2003) benefit from this?

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2007
    Is Click-Once deployment compatible with Outlook 2003 Add-In projects?

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2007
    Hats off to VSTO (VS, ClickOnce) team! No more problems with CAS and prerequisites. You can deploy your...

  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2008
    I think it's quite interesting how knowledge is shared nowadays. With so many blogs, online articles,

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2010
    How depoly the project within configuration files ,such as xml,txt?

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2010
    How depoly the project within configuration files ,such as xml,txt?

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2011
    i tried the same way to install my addin.it installed successfully and i can see it under the active addin but am not able to see the addin under  add in tab in the excel sheet.what could be the reason?