Wix Toolset: Cannot Add Link to Excel Add-in Project

Question

I just installed the latest version of Wix v3.7. I created the project "Implementation of Excel 2010" VS 2010 and, in the same solution, Wix "Setup Project".

The problem is that when I try to reference the add-in project from the Wix project, it is not there,

I tried a simple console application, and in this case works well.

Question - why the link to the add-in project cannot be added? Any fix or workaround?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This is not a WiX problem; You cannot add a link to the VSTO Addin project in general. You can try this with any other (non-WiX) type of project - the same result.

The problem is that the VSTO project was deliberately disabled to add as links. For some reason, I welcome Microsoft.

Was changed (fixed?) In VSTO 2013 Update 3. After updating VSTO you can now add links.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/08/04/visual-studio-2013-update-3-released.aspx , item # 3