Deploying a Visual Studio Excel 2007 Template

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Deploying a Visual Studio Excel 2007 Template

I've created a project of type "Excel 2007 Template" in Visual Studio 2008, and I've deployed the project to a network share.

After I run the Studio-generated setup.exe, what do I do to open the template? Is there supposed to an entry in the Start Menu? Show up in Excel somewhere?

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Take a look at the "Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\" folder inside the VS installation directory. This should contain the zipped folder of the template (needed files and the template file) and a ProjectTemplatesCache\ folder that should have the expanded folder (under the appropriate language / project type hierarchy).

Mohit Chakraborty 2009-03-12 19:36:51

Actually I want to find the template that I installed after deploying a "Excel 2007 Template" Visual Studio project.

Peder Rice 2009-03-12 19:42:08

I am not sure I follow, but the templates are all in the ProjectTemplatesCache and ItemTemplatesCache folders. Are you not able to find yours there?

Mohit Chakraborty 2009-03-12 20:23:44

I've already created a project with the template, that's not my issue. I need to deploy the compiled version of my project (it contains an Excel workbook and an associated DLL), but I don't know how to get it on a client's machine.

Peder Rice 2009-03-13 14:04:53

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So, found what I'm looking for.

In Visual Studio, I select "Publish Workbook". After entering a network path to house our code libraries and the Excel workbook, we distribute said workbook to our users. When the user opens up the workbook, it automatically installs the necessary DLLs.

Peder Rice 2009-03-19 14:27:35

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