Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO 2005) newbie deployment question.

Question

I have Visual Studio setup with a VSTO word project, and when I hit run it runs fine.

But, how do I setup a word document to use my code without having Visual Studio running?

Answer 1

You can do it using a Windows Installer project; starting point here. You can also use the Publish Wizard.

A more general starting point can be found in MSDN here.

Answer 2

You must deploy the VSTO runtime whether by hand or with an installer. Check out this blog post for a detailed explanation.