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How can I change the Load Behavior of a COM Add-In to Load at Startup?

I've been using the Team Foundation Add-in for Excel 2013 since day 1, and it's worked perfectly. I had some problems recently--I can't remember if Excel crashed or I didn't have connectivity to the TFS server or what--and I lost the TEAM tab. I found that this was because the Team Foundation Add-in was unloaded. If I start it back up (Options > Add-Ins > Manage: COM Add-Ins > Go... > check box) it works okay, but I have to manually load the add-in each time I open Excel.

 

In looking at the other add-ins, I see some of them have Load Behavior: Load at Startup. I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the Load Behavior for the Team Foundation Add-In, though!

 

How can I change the Load Behavior of the Team Foundation Add-in to Load at Startup?

 

Thanks,

Adam

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Fixed it! Here's what I did. Some of these steps may not be necessary. Note that I have 32-bit Office 2013 on my 64-bit machine with Visual Studio 2012.

 

  • Started Office as Administrator (Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\EXCEL.EXE)
  • Opened COM Add-Ins and deleted three entries for Team Foundation Add-in
  • Re-added the add-in (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Team Foundation Server\11.0\x86\TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll)

Once I re-added the add-in, its Load Behavior was correctly showing as Load at Startup. I closed Excel and re-launched from the usual, non-administrator start menu shortcut, and the add-in was correctly loaded.

 

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