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Copper Contributor

Aug 30, 2022

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Using Interop with Project Professional 2021

Our product supports importing data from Project using the Project Interop. As part of this feature we have code to test if Project is installed on the machine so that we can enable/disable the ...

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James_Pike
Aug 31, 2022
Not sure. Before I got an answer our IT re-installed 2021 on the machine where things weren't working and now things are working fine. Might have just been an installation issue I guess.

Paul_Mather

MVP

Aug 30, 2022

Hello James_Pike ,

I've not looked at this but just a thought, does this work for Word or Excel 2021?

Thanks

James_Pike
Copper Contributor
Aug 30, 2022
Not sure. Interestingly I found another test VM of ours with Windows 11 and Project Professional 2021 where things do work. That server seems to have the registry entries:

While the one that does work seems to lack the ProgID entries.
- Paul_Mather
  MVP
  Aug 30, 2022
  Hi James_Pike ,
  
  Were both systems in the same state before Project Pro 2021 was deployed? For example, was one an upgrade / had an earlier version of Project Pro installed or both clean and Project Pro 2021 was the first app deployed?
  - James_Pike
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 31, 2022
    Not sure. Before I got an answer our IT re-installed 2021 on the machine where things weren't working and now things are working fine. Might have just been an installation issue I guess.