Cannot find Microsoft.Office.Interop Visual Studio

Question

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 thing

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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?

Answer 4

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\