Hi, does anyone know what's wrong if I can't choose VSTO runtime or Excel 2003 PIA among the prerequesities for my setup project
I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)

and
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 77617-168-7076001-41212

Do you have the files for them in your "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages" directory (assuming that is where VS is installed) The sub-directories should be named "Office2003PIA" and "VSTORuntime".

For more info see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537173(office.11).aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537179(office.11).aspx

This looks promising...
After a loooong vsto repair setup on my dev machine I got an error message stating that "something" was wrong.
Shouldn't have used the MSDN disc perhaps I'll try todownload it and see if that helps!

/k

It seems as my MSDN disc with VSTO is damaged somehow - I don't get the folders
Office2003PIA and VSTORuntime under SDK\2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages.

O2003PIA.exe and vstor.exe doesn't help.

VSTO download is taking for ever... (Of course)
God, if I had known this I would have coded it all in VBA! 2,5 days more or less, still not a satisfactory setup program. One could guess I'm not suitable for this...

If you haven't already done so, try the samples from the article:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=e87f12dc-8324-4811-b0e9-54a6d6ea3d8f&displaylang=en

Unfortunately I did.

I can't follow the instructions when itsays I should enter vstor as prereq...
As I don't have it in my prerquesities dialog!
:(

Finally!

The most blame should be mine...
I printed the walkthroughs 2 pages per paper and missed the part about manually copying the packages from the sample files to bootstrapper.
With the correct package folders under bootstraper\Packages they DO turn up in the prerequesities dialog! So, I managed at last! Thanks for the inputs!

/k