Hi,

I'm a very new to Visual Basic .Net and are having some issues with a
com add-in that I built. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and have built a
simple com add-in that creates a command bar with a button. When this
button is clicked it launches a custom appointment form. When I build
the project from within Visual Studio, it builds with no errors and
when outlook is restarted the command bar appears and works exactly the
way I want it. Now, if I create an msi / setup.exe from within Visual
Studio from the project and then use it to install the button on the
same computer, the com add-in no longer appears. If you look under com
add-ins in outlook it's there, but it's unticked. If you try to tick
the box you get the following error: "Not loaded. A runtime error
occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in." I have also look
under Help/About/Disabled Items and there are no disabled items listed.
When you run setup.exe it puts all the files under
c:\ProgramFiles\request. I've checked the registry differences between
when I simply build the project and when I run setup.exe. The entries
look the same except for the manifest location when I run setup because
it now points to the new location. Can anyone help me? I need to get
this button deployed across my company asap and I've gotten to the end
of my limited knowledge of com add-in programming.