You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package. These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks:
- Configure prerequisites: .NET Framework 3.5, the VSTO 3.0 runtime, and the Office primary interop assemblies.
- Add the project output and manifests to the Setup project.
- Create registry keys to load an application-level add-in.
- Sign the solution with a known and trusted certificate, use the ClickOnce prompt, or create an inclusion list entry to grant trust to your solution.
- Deploy additional components such as helper assemblies.
- Update document-level solutions to separate the document and assembly in separate locations.
- Use Windows Installer to install into the ClickOnce offline cache.
- Modify the Setup project for Vista.
If you have questions about the whitepapers, please visit the Visual Studio Tools for Office MSDN Forum to search for answers and ask your questions.