How to deploy compiled Add-Ins to different PCs?

[Simon Hackfort]

What must I do to deploy my compiled EA Addin (the dll file)  on different machines with an installation or something. So that it will be in the EA addin manager, too. I read something about to enter a key for the addin in the registermanager. But how will be this key calculated?

[«Midnight»]

Simon,

I think you just need to add the correct Windows registry key. Most installation packages have some way of doing this.

The key is basically the name of the add-in, and possibly the path to the compiled code. It is in the documentation: look in the index for Deploy | Add-in.

David

[Frank Horn]

EA needs an HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems\EAAddins\YourAddIn with the full name of the COM class to be created as value. And the COM class needs to be registered, i.e. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\blah.blah and all that stuff.

[Geert Bellekens]

Add the key in the registry and register the dll with regsvr32. Look in the help for more details. (or as we used to say back in the good old support days: RTFM  )

[Simon Hackfort]

thank you guys for fast and helpful replies, now I found the chapter in the help file and I created a successful setup project.