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Avoid Microsoft Office SDK installation as part of my app

Hi All,

I have created a VSTO visual studio application in Visual Studio 2008. It's working fine and I wanted to create a installer for the same using Publish option. Now, I see that it creates the installer with Microsoft office SDK (194 MB) part of the installer. i don't want the client or my customer to install such a large component for using my relatively small app. Is there a way I can trim down the SDK to only the components I require? In other words how do I find the SDK code that I am using and only include that as part of my installer? (I do not want to include a path to sdk and client to download that file, too - so it's not just about trimming the publisher).

Thanks for any pointers. Cheers, Chandra

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Starting with Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0, you can avoid these large dependencies on the office SDK by taking advantage of a feature called NoPia or Interop Type Embedding. This feature will essentially embed all COM interop types used from a given PIA into your application. This frees you from the burden of having to deploy it as part of your application. Here's a quick link on the subject.

JaredPar  2009-12-11 17:15:37

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