I've created my first Outlook 2010 AddIn using VS 2012 but I'm having trouble creating a setup.exe.
I'm using clickOnce to publish the setup.exe files but when I try to install the AddIn, I get the same message as this guy - Error deploying VSTO Office addin
It turns out I cannot create MSI installer in VS2012 as written in the accepted SO answer because MS no longer supports it. Instead I am to use InstallShield to create the setup.exe. I tried that with the steps outlined in this video - http://resources.flexerasoftware.com/web/demos/IS2010_VSLE_Demo/IS2010_VSLE_Demo-lite.html
That failed too. For some reason it cannot find the .vsto file which doesn't seem to get created! The file path it looks for is also wrong even though I did specify in the registry "[TARGETDIR]… |vstolocal" per the instructions from an MSDN page.
Question: What do I need to do to fix either the clickOnce installer error or the InstallShield error?
I don't care which deployment method I use as long as: 1. it WORKS! 2. I can copy the setup.exe (w/ any necessary files) on to a USB stick and give a few people to test the Outlook AddIn.
Thanks.
Thanks to Andy_mic in MSDN Forum, here's the answer:
Follow ALL the steps, step by step, in the following link: Deploying an Office Solution by Using Windows Installer
I ran into a couple of problems: