vrijdag 25 maart 2005

Why my Office XP smarttag didn't work. I created a SmartTag for Office Excel XP and guess what... it didn't work. After triple checking the namespace, class name, strong name, guid, ... I googled the net. And here is the solution: For VS .NET and .NET Fx 1.0, when you register for com-interop on the build  page or regasm, it puts a full path to mscoree.dll at inprocserver32 like  this: c:windowssystem32mscoree.dl­l.  For VS 2003 and .NET Fx 1.1, there  were some changes and instead of the full path, the registration services  only put mscoree.dll.  Try manually at  HKCRCLSID<GUID of com add-in>Inpocserver32 and change  mscoree.dll to c:windowssystem32mscoree.dl­l  Or create a setup project and set register property to vsdraCOM.  Then  install using the installer and you'll see inprocserver32 points to  c:windowssystem32mscoree.dl­l.  (Note that recompiling your project will  make VS reset it to just "mscoree.dll" again, so stick with the installer.) 7:15:58 AM    comment []