How to display Custom Taskpane in Office 2013?

Question

I have developed an Excel Addin using VSTO 4.0. There is a Custom taskpane that contains various controls to perform functions. the Custom Taskpane works fine with office 2010 and is displayed on left. but When i install the addin for office 2013 on Windows 8.1 it does not apear at all?

Below is the code snippet im using to display the taskpane;

var taskPaneProcessMapView = new TaskPanes.taskpaneProcessMap().GetInstance();
        this.TaskPaneProcessMap = Globals.ThinkReliabilityAddIn.CustomTaskPanes.Add(taskPaneProcessMapView, "Process Map");
        this.TaskPaneProcessMap.Visible = false;

Eugene Astafiev Eugene Astafiev · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-02T16:15:01

this.TaskPaneProcessMap.Visible = false;

May be you need to set the Visible property to true?

Anyway, is your add-in enabled? Did you have a chance to check out the COM add-ins list in Excel? Is it listed in the Inactive add-ins list?

Microsoft Office applications can disable add-ins that behave unexpectedly. If an application does not load your add-in, the application might have hard disabled or soft disabled your add-in.

Hard disabling can occur when an add-in causes the application to close unexpectedly. It might also occur on your development computer if you stop the debugger while the Startup event handler in your add-in is executing.

Soft disabling can occur when an add-in produces an error that does not cause the application to unexpectedly close. For example, an application might soft disable an add-in if it throws an unhandled exception while the Startup event handler is executing.

When you re-enable a soft-disabled add-in, the application immediately attempts to load the add-in. If the problem that initially caused the application to soft disable the add-in has not been fixed, the application will soft disable the add-in again. See How to: Re-enable an Add-in That Has Been Disabled for more information.

How to display Custom Taskpane in Office 2013?

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