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Add-ins that require administrative privileges can be installed by using Windows Installer but it does require more effort to create the setup. ClickOnce and Windows Installer packages need to do the same rudimentary tasks when installing an Office solution. Microsoft Office uses registry entries to locate and load Add-ins. These registry entries should be created as part of the deployment process. Outlook Add-ins that display custom form regions require additional registry entries that allow the form regions to be identified.

For more information about registry entries, see Registry entries for Outlook form regions. Document-level solutions don't require any registry entries. Instead, properties inside the document are used to locate the customization. For more information about these properties, see Custom Document Properties Overview. In order for a customization to run, a solution must be trusted by the machine. The Add-in can be trusted by signing the manifest with a certificate, creating a trust-relationship with an inclusion list, or by installing it to a trusted location on the machine.

For more information about how to obtain a certificate for signing, see ClickOnce Deployment and Authenticode. You can add an inclusion list entry with a custom action in your Windows Installer file. For more information about enabling the inclusion list, see How to: Configure Inclusion List Security. If neither option is used, a trust prompt is displayed to the user to let them decide whether to trust the solution.

For more information about security related to document-level solutions, see Granting Trust to Documents. The Setup and Deployment project templates are included with the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension that is available for download. Visual Studio opens the File System Explorer for the new setup project.

The File System Explorer allows you to add files to the setup project. The setup project needs to deploy the ExcelAddIn. You can configure the setup project for this task by adding the ExcelAddIn project output to the setup project.

The setup project needs to deploy the deployment manifest and application manifest. Add these two files to the setup project as stand-alone files from the output folder of the ExcelAddIn project. Select the ExcelAddIn. Figure 3: Application and deployment manifests for the Add-in in Solution Explorer.

These components must be excluded and deployed using prerequisite packages to allow them to be registered correctly. Also, the Software License Terms must be displayed and accepted before the installation begins.

The Utilities assemblies are meant to be deployed along with your application. In the Properties window, change the Exclude property to True to exclude the dependent assemblies from the setup project. Make sure to not exclude any Utilities assemblies. You can configure your Windows Installer package to install prerequisite components by adding a Setup program, also known as a bootstrapper.

This setup program can install the prerequisite components, a process called bootstrapping. For the ExcelAddIn , these prerequisites must be installed before the Add-in can run correctly:.

In the Prerequisites dialog box, select the correct version of the. Some of the configured prerequisite packages in your Visual Studio Setup Project are dependent on the selected build configuration. You must select the right prerequisite components for each build configuration that you use.

Microsoft Office locates Add-ins by using registry keys. Delete the [Manufacturer]? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I also saw this solution, nevertheless that shouldn't be necessary Thank you anyway! Yes you can. Below is the link for creating Installer project for AddIn. Deependra Rathore Deependra Rathore 11 1 1 bronze badge. Eugene Astafiev Eugene Astafiev I can't use GPO. I've inherited a Inno Setup project and the product is huge, this part is a small part and it should be installed in machines which lack of domain controller and can't be pushed to install software by GPO — Pablo Yabo.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Word object model overview. Outlook object model overview. PowerPoint solutions. Visio object model overview. For Excel and Word, you can add managed controls to documents. You can customize the Ribbon if the application supports it. For more information, see Ribbon overview.

You can create a custom task pane if the application supports it. For more information, see Custom task panes. For Outlook, you can create a custom form region. For more information, see Create Outlook form regions. For a list of topics that walk you through some of the common tasks in Office projects, see Common tasks in Office programming.

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