Excel Add in published setup package fail to install

[hmaleki]

hello
Recently I developed my first add-in in vb.net 2010, I have installed office 2010 and 2013 and visual studio 2010 and 2013, when I press start debugging from visual studio it works with full feature but I can't create installation for it with standard installation in visual studio, I tried your solution to create publish but when I want to install it in my machine i see this error :
The value of property 'type' cann't be parsed. The error is: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.office.businessApplication.Fba, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=netural, publickeytoken=71...' or one of it's dependencies.
The system can't find the file specified. (C:\program files\common files\microsoft shares\VSTO\10.0\VSTOinstaller.exe.config line10)

please help me really i have big problem with this and it wasted my 1 week.

[willmotil]

The value of property 'type' cann't be parsed. The error is: Could not load file or assembly
The system can't find the file specified
.....VSTOinstaller.exe.config line10

these types of errors may be because of a corrupted config file
it also could be if you are using MS Visual Studios and added a file
or you wrote one and added it to your solution but... didn't select in its properties
copy if newer, or copy always

sometimes you will get the "can't be parsed" if the file doesn't load
but that might also mean its gotten corrupted or that value in there is garbage

the error itself is saying this

you have a configuration file in this folder path here
C:\program files\common files\microsoft shares\VSTO\10.0\ the file VSTOinstaller.exe. its type config

inside it at line 10 their is a value
or more simply a path written down to another file that needs to get loaded
but
when the operating system or application goes to try to find it ...

"The system can't find the file specified"

basically some file its trying to load is missing in a folder were line 10 in the installers config file says it should be at

[hmaleki]

Hello thank you for your time
this is config line 10:
type="Microsoft.Office.BusinessApplications.Runtime.DeploymentAction.HttpFbaRequestCreator,Microsoft.Office.BusinessApplications.Runtime,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />

now what should I do?
I don't change this until now.

say me solution please

[willmotil]

k so i did a little looking around on this Microsoft.office.businessApplication

HttpFbaRequestCreator part of your error as well

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ice.14%29.aspx
from what i can see
this highly appears to be caused by a improper installation of this vsto office tools
so its not your app i think ... but ... it looks like.... something your app needs that is installed wrong

so now you have some options

i suggest this preferably strongly first

post a new topic on this site , were you will have someone who can help who is experienced with this problem proper

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...013?forum=vsto

or
if your not depending on this vsto and sharepoint
you might copy paste it line 10 to a text file
remove it from that config save and try to run it.
if that doesn't work replace it save and try something else

or
if you know what this is Microsoft.office.businessApplication i dont but
if you can safely uninstall re-download and reinstall it
you can try that it might just solve the problem...
after you uninstall it i would reboot to clear the cache then reinstall
then try to run your app again

...
if nothing works...
including suggestions from the guys on that site ...
...the final solutions...

quick one
save your project to some other folder or somewhere safe other then vs projects
uninstall vsto reboot reinstall
recreate a new project same name in vs stuidio projects ,readd all your stuff, run it.
(could just be a bad dll reference or a damaged dll or something)

long one
save your project to some other folder or somewhere safe other then vs projects
uninstall everything that you think might be related especially that microsoft buisness apps thing and even as far
as uninstalling .net and if you feel the need to go as far as vs do so...
reboot the computer (to clear the cache)
now here this is optional ...
if its a really bad install or coruption, it could have screwed up reg keys (this part can really suck)
save your project to thumbdrive or what not, i dont really wanna say this cause its kinda dangerous but
if you have a registery cleaner and you know how to use it run it at this point ... then...
reboot yet again
now then finally...
re-download / reinstall all the programs you need after your done ...yet again reboot
at that point ...after all that work...
recreate a new project with the same name in your projects folder
readd everything all the class files rescources ect from the old project...
run it
provided you installed everything correctly.......

it should work

hate those kinds of problems
good luck

[kosmonautica]

I had the same problem.
Installing the add-inusing "run as administrator" solved the problem for me.
Let me know whether this worked for you.

Udo