Greetings,
I've been developing this program in VS.NET using VB.NET at work to synchronize Microsoft Project with data from our databases. To describe the program, it simply creates and adds a new menu with a few options to the existing main menu.
I feel it is ready for my fellow employees to use, but I am having issues in getting it to deploy correctly. The situation is as follows.
During the process of development, I have been able to successfully load the add-in into Microsoft Project and use it.
When I go to buildProjectNameSetup, it packages the dependencies into a Windows Installer package. I then send the contents generated in Release\ProjectNameSetup to one of my colleagues to beta test. He runs the installer and it says the install was successful. However, when Microsoft Project loads, there is no menu added to the main menu. I then go into the COM Addins manager and navigate to the installation directory to add the application .DLL. However, when I attempt to add the .DLL, the following error occurs:
'Path' is not a valid Office Add-in.
I checked the Registry to make sure the LoadBehavior, Description, and FriendlyName keys were where they were supposed to be, and they were. I checked the assembly to make sure everything that the application needed was in there, and they were.
I am stumped at this point and would appreciate any assistance the community can offer.
Thanks,
Les Peabody