Programming Applications for Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007

Chapter 18. Add-in Setup and Deployment

Once you have worked through the steps of creating and testing your solution, you need to deploy it to customers. Typically, you create a setup package to install your solution. You can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to create and build a setup package, or you can use a third-party tool. Depending on how you create your add-in project, Visual Studio might add a setup project to your solution. This chapter focuses on the registry keys required for a Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 add-in. Depending on the features of your solution, you will have to create certain registry keys for your add-in (and form regions, if applicable) to load successfully. You also must ensure that certain prerequisites, such as the ...