Cannot find Microsoft Office Interop Visual Studio

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I need to develop an application which will has the capability to send emails using C  with visual studio  The app will be able to use templates for mail  and a lot of things  but I have a problem   I cannot find any Office Interop references when I try to add them  which is mean I cannot work with Outlook  Office is installed on my computer  but i also try to install the PIA from this link http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 3508 but it didn t change anything  when I launch the MSI it stops without a word  I don t know if it s part of the problem    I m using Visual Studio 2013 Express  in case that might limit the possible answers

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I had the same issue with Visual Studio Community 2013, I fixed it downloading and installing the latest update of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013. Now I am able to see the whole Microsoft.Office.Interop.* list when I go to

Add References > Assemblies > Extensions

you can download it from here:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs.aspx#Office
http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2013

User · Answer

You can find it at link       C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Office Interop Word 15 0 0 0  71e9bce111e9429c Microsoft Office Interop Word dll   Browse it then add references

User · Answer

If you re using Visual Studio 2015 and you re encountering this problem  you can install MS Office Developer Tools for VS2015 here

User · Answer

I think you need to run that  msi to install the dlls  After I ran that  msi I can go to  VS 2012  Add References   Assemblies   Extensions and all of the Microsoft Office Interop dlls are there   On my computer the dlls are found in   c  Program Files x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 Visual Studio Tools for Office PIA  so you could check in a similar equivalent directory on yours just to make sure they re not there

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You need to install Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Redistributable   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms178739 aspx

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If you have installed latest Visual studio and want to  To locate library of Microsoft Office Interop Outlook or any other Microsoft Office Interop library then you should look into below 2 folders   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 Visual Studio Tools for Office PIA Office14  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 Visual Studio Tools for Office PIA Office15   Please note that folder could be C  Program Files

User · Answer

With Visual Studio 2015 I have activated it with the following steps    Programs and Features --  Select Visual Studio   Change Choose Modify Windows and Webdevelopment --  Tick  Microsoft Office Developer Tools  Start Update   It should work now

User · Answer

I forgot to select Microsoft Office Developer Tools for installation initially  In my case Visual Studio Professional 2013 and also 2015

User · Answer

Look for them under COM when trying to add the references  You should find the reference below  and possibly Microsoft Outlook 15 0 Object Library  if you need that  There are similar libraries for Word  Excel  etc      Update  The Object Library should contain the Interop stuff  Try to add this to a source file  and see if it does not find what you need    using Microsoft Office Interop Outlook

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Just doing like  Kjartan   Steps are as follows    Right click your C  project name in Visual Studio s  Solution Explorer   Then  select  add -  Reference -  COM -  Type Libraries   in order  Find the  Microsoft Office 16 0 Object Library   and add it to reference  Note  the version number may vary with the OFFICE you have installed   After doing this  you will see  Microsoft Office Interop Word  under the  Reference  item in your project

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