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Denis - 27 Apr 2007 16:12 GMT

After completing testing of my addins in my dev and virtual test
environments, I went to deploy them and encountered a very odd issue.

Upon installing my addin, various things within powerpoint fail to draw
properly including wordart and images. They show up fine in the slide
preview but do not in the actual default design view.

Everything works just fine in both my development environemtn and my virtual
test environment, but when I try to deploy to my user boxes this issue
happens.

I'm using VSTO 2005 with Visual Studio 2005
Office 2003 (11.8120) SP2
Windows XP 64bit SP2 on my development box
Windows XP 32bit SP2 on my test virtual machine
Windows XP 32bit SP2 on my user's workstations

I would welcome any thoughts or suggestions as to what could be causing or
what could resolve the issue.

Thanks,

Denis

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Austin Myers - 27 Apr 2007 16:20 GMT

Denis,

> I'm using VSTO 2005 with Visual Studio 2005

You should be using VSTO se

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

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Denis - 27 Apr 2007 16:44 GMT

Sorry, I am using VSTO 2005 SE, just missed adding the SE.

Anyway, I found a solution to my issue in another post:

"This is a display issue. I'd try changing hardware acceleration.

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm"

> Denis,
>
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> Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
> www.playsforcertain.com

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Austin Myers - 27 Apr 2007 16:48 GMT

> Sorry, I am using VSTO 2005 SE, just missed adding the SE.
>
> Anyway, I found a solution to my issue in another post:
>
> "This is a display issue. I'd try changing hardware acceleration.

Hmm, that indicates to me that your video card needs an updated driver.
Also be aware that with Vista turning back the hardware acceleration may not
be possible.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

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Steve Rindsberg - 27 Apr 2007 19:20 GMT

> Hmm, that indicates to me that your video card needs an updated driver.
> Also be aware that with Vista turning back the hardware acceleration may not
> be possible.

Is that a user permissions issue or is it video driver-related?

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Austin Myers - 27 Apr 2007 22:41 GMT

>> Hmm, that indicates to me that your video card needs an updated driver.
>> Also be aware that with Vista turning back the hardware acceleration may
>> not
>> be possible.
>
> Is that a user permissions issue or is it video driver-related?

More dependant how you have Vista set up. Unless you set it to its most
basic UI you can't turn acceleration (DirectX) off.

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Steve Rindsberg - 28 Apr 2007 18:48 GMT

> >> Hmm, that indicates to me that your video card needs an updated driver.
> >> Also be aware that with Vista turning back the hardware acceleration may
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> More dependant how you have Vista set up. Unless you set it to its most
> basic UI you can't turn acceleration (DirectX) off.

Which'd also make it somewhat hardware dependant then. That is, if the video
hardware isn't up to the higher-end stuff, you get a more basic UI, like it or
not. OK, that makes sense here ... I'm running Vista on a VM, meaning that
there just ain't no plainerjaner video than what I've got here. So no fancy
Visteffects, and I can easily change hardware accel.

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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