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Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger

Reputation: 70983

Create Excel Add-in without VSTO

I have used VS 2010 to create an Excel 2007 Add-in with C#. The add-in is a TaskPane-based UI. Works great, love it.

However, my users do not have Admin access and cannot install the add-in because VSTO is required.

Is there a way to create/port this add-in to a normal COM based add-in without this show-stopping reference to VSTO?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2220

Answers (2)

Bek Raupov
Bek Raupov

Reputation: 3777

or you could package it up as .msi so that when users installed, it will be installed under system account.

even if you convert it to COM, you will have to register (regasm) the dlls and that requires admin rights anyway. Best not to go through COM route ... :)

Upvotes: 1

DarinH
DarinH

Reputation: 4879

They shouldn't necessarily require admin rights just because you use vsto. Make sure that the addin is being installed "Per user" instead of "per machine".

Upvotes: 1

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