Removing Another Application's Add-in

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Scott Brady Drummonds - 24 Nov 2004 19:35 GMT

Hi, everyeone,

I need a way of automating the removal of a Virus Scan add-in in my own
application. That is, I want to write an application that either removes or
disables Virus Scan in Outlook. However, the details of add-in registration
and remove are abstracted in the Visual Studio "Shared Add-in" template, so
I cannot find documentation on how to do this.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott

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Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 24 Nov 2004 21:58 GMT

You could read the registry at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
and set LoadBehavior to 2 if the addin isn't already running. If it is the
only way I know of is to iterate the COMAddins collection and find the addin
you want and set its Connect bit to False.

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> Hi, everyeone,
>
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> Thanks,
> Scott

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