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Outlook Add In suddenly stops loadingHi,
I developed an Outlook Add In (VB.NET 2005, for Outlook 2003) that sometimes suddenly stops loading. I've put everywhere in the code Exception Handlers, but no Exception is catched. it seems that other add ins aren't loaded afterwarths (nod32). Does anybody know a way to find out why an outlook add could do this? and find out after the problem what caused the problem? Any help our hints would be really apreciated, thanks a lot in advance, Pieter Sounds like it crashed on a load. In Outlook, there is an option to reset
the add-ins. If you can't find it, repost your question to an Outlook newsgroup. Mike Ober. Show quoteHide quote "Pieter" <pietercou***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eBgyTsZpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I developed an Outlook Add In (VB.NET 2005, for Outlook 2003) that sometimes > suddenly stops loading. I've put everywhere in the code Exception Handlers, > but no Exception is catched. > it seems that other add ins aren't loaded afterwarths (nod32). > > Does anybody know a way to find out why an outlook add could do this? and > find out after the problem what caused the problem? > > Any help our hints would be really apreciated, thanks a lot in advance, > > Pieter > > > That sounds like your addin is using a shared application namespace with
various other Outlook addins. In that case any fault in any of the addins will cause all of them to stop loading. A better solution is to use a shim or VSTO to load the addin into its own application namespace so it isn't affected by problems with other addins and problems with your addin don't kill all other addins. For information on shimming Outlook addins see the .NET information at http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm. You must handle all errors in your addin, as you indicate that you are doing, plus you must release all of your Outlook objects at the correct time so Outlook can close properly, and for .NET you might have to also explicitly call the garbage collector and to release all of your COM objects and then wait for the garbage collector to finish. -- Show quoteHide quoteKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "Pieter" <pietercou***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eBgyTsZpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I developed an Outlook Add In (VB.NET 2005, for Outlook 2003) that > sometimes suddenly stops loading. I've put everywhere in the code > Exception Handlers, but no Exception is catched. > it seems that other add ins aren't loaded afterwarths (nod32). > > Does anybody know a way to find out why an outlook add could do this? and > find out after the problem what caused the problem? > > Any help our hints would be really apreciated, thanks a lot in advance, > > Pieter > Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > That sounds like your addin is using a shared application namespace with I had an add-in that suddenly stopped loading. This was because I had> various other Outlook addins. In that case any fault in any of the addins > will cause all of them to stop loading. A better solution is to use a shim > or VSTO to load the addin into its own application namespace so it isn't > affected by problems with other addins and problems with your addin don't > kill all other addins. > > For information on shimming Outlook addins see the .NET information at > http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm. > > You must handle all errors in your addin, as you indicate that you are > doing, plus you must release all of your Outlook objects at the correct time > so Outlook can close properly, and for .NET you might have to also > explicitly call the garbage collector and to release all of your COM objects > and then wait for the garbage collector to finish. > > -- > Ken Slovak > [MVP - Outlook] > http://www.slovaktech.com > Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 > Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options > http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > > > "Pieter" <pietercou***@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:eBgyTsZpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > Hi, > > > > I developed an Outlook Add In (VB.NET 2005, for Outlook 2003) that > > sometimes suddenly stops loading. I've put everywhere in the code > > Exception Handlers, but no Exception is catched. > > it seems that other add ins aren't loaded afterwarths (nod32). > > > > Does anybody know a way to find out why an outlook add could do this? and > > find out after the problem what caused the problem? > > > > Any help our hints would be really apreciated, thanks a lot in advance, > > > > Pieter > > upgraded the client machine to Windows XP Service Pack 2, which introduces new security features. One of these is that a non-trusted add-in won't run by default. If you use the outlook shim solution as Ken suggested, the add-in is given certificates and trusted. I used the guide here to set this up. There's a lot to do, but if you follow the instructions carefully it does work. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoxpta/html/odc_comshim.asp?frame=true Regards Richard http://www.richardjonas.com/blog Will this work with .net 2.0? I had been using a Shim and it worked
great with .Net 1.1, but as soon as .net 2.0 came into the picture it did not work anymore and I had to go to using regsvr32 which seems to be causing this issue to happen for me. Any suggestions? Rog Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] wrote: Show quoteHide quote > That sounds like your addin is using a shared application namespace with > various other Outlook addins. In that case any fault in any of the > addins will cause all of them to stop loading. A better solution is to > use a shim or VSTO to load the addin into its own application namespace > so it isn't affected by problems with other addins and problems with > your addin don't kill all other addins. > > For information on shimming Outlook addins see the .NET information at > http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm. > > You must handle all errors in your addin, as you indicate that you are > doing, plus you must release all of your Outlook objects at the correct > time so Outlook can close properly, and for .NET you might have to also > explicitly call the garbage collector and to release all of your COM > objects and then wait for the garbage collector to finish. > It should.
I haven't used shimming with 2.0, I write my addins mostly using VB 6 code when I'm going to distribute them. I'd start a new thread with that specific question as the subject and post it only in the dotnet groups so people more expert in that area will pay attention to it. If it's in this thread it might get ignored. -- Show quoteHide quoteKen Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "Rog" <rog***@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:OHgfF6v5GHA.4644@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Will this work with .net 2.0? I had been using a Shim and it worked great > with .Net 1.1, but as soon as .net 2.0 came into the picture it did not > work anymore and I had to go to using regsvr32 which seems to be causing > this issue to happen for me. > Any suggestions? > Rog |
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