[wix-users] Help making a WiX 3.x installer for VSTO Add-in for Office 2016 and Office 365

[Steven Graf]

Harald,

Thank you for the direct link to download the prereqs!

To answer your off topic question Office 365 has a thick client install
(for both macOS and Windows) in addition to it's online version. This
VSTO Add-in is compatible with the thick Office 365 client for Windows,
which looks to be largely based on Office 2016 but includes some cloud
components (such as OneDrive, an outlook.com account, etc). There is
also support in Office.js for Add-ins but it needs to be written in
JavaScript and has limited functionality. There's also plugin support in
OpenXML which apparently docx is technically adheres to. I haven't
explored that too much, but it'll work with non-Office word processors
such as OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

Cheers,

-S


On 5/3/2018 1:37 AM, harald goci via wix-users wrote:
> In my experience the best way is to bundle the Visual Studio Tools for
> Office as a prerequisite.
> They contain everything to run a VSTO AddIn:
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/0/0/C001737F-822B-48C2-8F6A-CDE13B4B9E9C/vstor_redist.exe
>
> Question off topic: How does a VSTO AddIn help you with Office 365?
>
> BR,
> Harald Goci
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> From:	"Hoover, Jacob via wix-users" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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> Cc:	"Hoover, Jacob" <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Date:	03.05.2018 01:44
> Subject:	Re: [wix-users] Help making a WiX 3.x installer for VSTO Add-in
>             for Office 2016 and Office 365
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> Create a bundle and deploy the prerequisite with its normal installer?  I
> do believe the VC runtime team moved away from MSM's.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Steven Graf via wix-users
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> Subject: [wix-users] Help making a WiX 3.x installer for VSTO Add-in for
> Office 2016 and Office 365
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to the list and I'm hoping WiX is the solution to my problem. I
> have developed a VSTO Add-in for Word 2016 and 365 using Visual Studio
> 2017 and C#. What I want to do is distribute a VSTO Add-in for Microsoft
> Office 2016 and Office 365 (specifically Word). When I go to publish my
> VSTO Add-in for Word (2016 and 365) it requires a the Visual C runtime from
> Visual C 2010 be installed first. I'd like to make an MSI to distribute my
> VSTO Add-in that will install the Visual C 2010 runtime before it runs the
> "published" VSTO installer. I built MSI but not since dealing with Visual
> Basic 6. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> I tried playing around with the MSM and MSI packages released by MS but I
> didn't have much luck (couldn't find any good documentation).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Graf
>
>
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