Publish ClickOnce VSTO Add-Ins: How to deploy language packs?

Hi,

I'm deploying Office 2007 Add-Ins using the "Publish" tab under Project/Properties in VS2008 SP1 (I'm not using a separate setup project). All works fine, but I don't know how to deploy the german language packs for ".NET Framework 3.5 SP1" and "VSTO 3.0 runtime". The language packs are not listed under "Prerequisites" - so how can I accomplish to deploy the language packs together with the other prerequisites?

Thank you

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Hi.

You can create your own custom prerequisites using bootstrap.

Actually, the prerequisites were composes of the setup file and two descriptor files (always .xml format). If you want to manually create the prerequisite, please see the following steps.

1. Download the German language pack from Microsoft website.

2. Create the product manifest and a package manifest.

3. Copy these files to the “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages”(for Vs 2008). You can refer to other prerequisites and see how they are structured.

4. Then use it from the prerequisite Dialog.

There is also a tool called BMG which can save you a lot of time. It will generate all the things for you. You can download it from BMG for Visual Studio 2008 (Beta). After you complete all the information, please Click “compile” button which lies in the left corner. It will generate the files and copy it to the specified directory automatically.

Hi,

thank you for this information. I just tried BMG Tool and it's exactly what I needed.

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