Form region not appearing on machines I deploy to?

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Mark B

OL2007, VS2008, C#, VSTO

My form region is not appearing on machines I deploy to even though it

appears fine on the development machine.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386301.aspx#Deploying says:

Deploying a Form Region

Form regions are deployed automatically with the associated Outlook add-in.

Therefore, you do not have to perform any special tasks to deploy a form

region. For more information about deploying add-ins, see Deploying Office

Solutions (2007 System).

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Any ideas why it wouldn't be showing up? I've tried on a Vista and an XP

machine.
 
Is the registration for your form region there? Is it registered for

whatever MessageClass it's supposed to work with?

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> OL2007, VS2008, C#, VSTO

> My form region is not appearing on machines I deploy to even though it
> appears fine on the development machine.

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386301.aspx#Deploying says:

> Deploying a Form Region
> Form regions are deployed automatically with the associated Outlook
> add-in. Therefore, you do not have to perform any special tasks to deploy
> a form region. For more information about deploying add-ins, see Deploying
> Office Solutions (2007 System).

> -
> Any ideas why it wouldn't be showing up? I've tried on a Vista and an XP
> machine.
 
Yes, I get the setup to add the following key on the target PC:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]

"MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"

I checked what it was on my development PC and it was:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]

"MyAddin.MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"

So then I manually changed it on the target PC to match the development PC's

key value.

It still didn't show.
 
What is that registry key doing? Does it point to the location where the XML

for the form region is located? Does the key match the addin ProgID? Usually

if I do a form region I set it up to either supply XML using a location for

the XML in that key, or I supply the ProgID of the class where the form

region is defined. Usually that would be something like MyAddin.Connect.

Also, please put the preceding part of a thread in your reply. It gets way

too hard to follow things if you just snip to your own replies.

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> Yes, I get the setup to add the following key on the target PC:

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]
> "MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"

> I checked what it was on my development PC and it was:

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]
> "MyAddin.MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"

> So then I manually changed it on the target PC to match the development
> PC's key value.

> It still didn't show.
 
The Key value I entered matches the ProgID. If I right-click the add-in

project, select Properties and select the Application tab, the value under

"Assembly name" is the value I used for the Key value. I put an = sign

before it:

=MyAddin

I didn't use any double-quotes.

I would like to test the alternate method of pointing to the location where

the form region XML is but I haven't been able to find it.

I am guessing that the programmer here who first created the form region

used Visual Studio, Right Click, Add New Item>>, Office>>, Outlook Form

Region (template) wizard to automatically create it. It's an adjoining

region that shows below the reading pane. I have looked under the form

region object's .cs, .designer.cs and .resx objects but can't see any

reference to an XML file. Is there one? Do you know where it would reside?

If so what's the best method to reference it?

TIA
<kenslovak@mvps.org> wrote in message

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> What is that registry key doing? Does it point to the location where the
> XML for the form region is located? Does the key match the addin ProgID?
> Usually if I do a form region I set it up to either supply XML using a
> location for the XML in that key, or I supply the ProgID of the class
> where the form region is defined. Usually that would be something like
> MyAddin.Connect.

> Also, please put the preceding part of a thread in your reply. It gets way
> too hard to follow things if you just snip to your own replies.

> >

>

> "Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message
> news:OVxGGWNlKHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Yes, I get the setup to add the following key on the target PC:
>

>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]
> > "MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"
>

>> I checked what it was on my development PC and it was:
>

>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\IPM.Note]
> > "MyAddin.MyAddinFormRegion"="=MyAddin"
>

>> So then I manually changed it on the target PC to match the development
> > PC's key value.
>

>> It still didn't show.
>
 
If the form region was designed inside of VSTO then you usually won't see

the separate XML for the form region, a different type designer is used

then. For VSTO you usually would see the "=MyAddin" type registry entry for

the form region.

You might want to reference the material on form regions at

www.outlookcode.com. There's a lot of information there and links to samples

and posts on the forums there on problems. That might point out something

I'm missing.

"Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message

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> The Key value I entered matches the ProgID. If I right-click the add-in
> project, select Properties and select the Application tab, the value under
> "Assembly name" is the value I used for the Key value. I put an = sign
> before it:

> =MyAddin

> I didn't use any double-quotes.

> I would like to test the alternate method of pointing to the location
> where the form region XML is but I haven't been able to find it.

> I am guessing that the programmer here who first created the form region
> used Visual Studio, Right Click, Add New Item>>, Office>>, Outlook Form
> Region (template) wizard to automatically create it. It's an adjoining
> region that shows below the reading pane. I have looked under the form
> region object's .cs, .designer.cs and .resx objects but can't see any
> reference to an XML file. Is there one? Do you know where it would reside?
> If so what's the best method to reference it?

> TIA
 
Thanks Ken. The issue was solved after I posted a question to that forum. I

was referred there to

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/d0b489c5-5824-40c3-86c4-7cd765f0b56d/.

In that post the following text was relevant:

"I talked to one of the form regions testers about this, and he said that

the value of this key:

ChangeContactsDisplay.MyForm --- REG_SZ --- =ChangeContactsDisplay

needs to match what you used as the folder name [Key Name] in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/Outlook/Addins to store the

FriendlyName, Description, LoadBehavior, and Manifest registry keys. "

--- <kenslovak@mvps.org> wrote in message

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> If the form region was designed inside of VSTO then you usually won't see
> the separate XML for the form region, a different type designer is used
> then. For VSTO you usually would see the "=MyAddin" type registry entry
> for the form region.

> You might want to reference the material on form regions at
> www.outlookcode.com. There's a lot of information there and links to
> samples and posts on the forums there on problems. That might point out
> something I'm missing.

> >

>

> "Mark B" <none123@none.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Q4H5GWlKHA.2680@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > The Key value I entered matches the ProgID. If I right-click the add-in
> > project, select Properties and select the Application tab, the value
> > under "Assembly name" is the value I used for the Key value. I put an =
> > sign before it:
>

>> =MyAddin
>

>> I didn't use any double-quotes.
>

>> I would like to test the alternate method of pointing to the location
> > where the form region XML is but I haven't been able to find it.
>

>> I am guessing that the programmer here who first created the form region
> > used Visual Studio, Right Click, Add New Item>>, Office>>, Outlook Form
> > Region (template) wizard to automatically create it. It's an adjoining
> > region that shows below the reading pane. I have looked under the form
> > region object's .cs, .designer.cs and .resx objects but can't see any
> > reference to an XML file. Is there one? Do you know where it would
> > reside? If so what's the best method to reference it?
>

>
>> TIA
>
 
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