[Bug 38271] New: The Docear4Word plugin for MS Word does not work at all

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38271

            Bug ID: 38271
           Summary: The Docear4Word plugin for MS Word does not work at
                    all
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: whynot at nurfuerspam.de
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 51098
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51098
Debug output trying to install/launch docear4word with Word

Docear4Word is a FOSS plugin for MS Word, which allows creating citations and
bibliography in MS Word based on a BibTeX database. 

Information about this plugin can be found here:
http://www.docear.org/software/add-ons/docear4word/overview/

This is the download link:
http://docear.org/download/docear4word_setup.exe

The plugin's source code is also available:
http://docear.org/download/docear4word_source.zip

I tried installing this in both Word 2007 and Word 2010. In both cases, the
install of the plugin appears to finish without any errors (in the GUI). 

In Word 2007, the progress is a little bit better, since the plugin at least
shows up in the preferences (Word Options => Add-Ins => Inactive Application
Add-ins lists "Docear4Word"). Obviously, since it is inactive, something went
wrong. Also by following "Manage => Add-Ins => COM-Add-Ins" one gets to a modal
pop-up window, which lists all COM Add-Ins. "Docear4Word" appears, but is
unchecked. If one checks it and goes to the same window again (COM Add-Ins), it
will say "Load Behavior: Not loaded. A runtime error occurred during the
loading of the COM Add-in."
If one turns wine debug output on, the are some specific errors in the command
line (see attachment, 1st part), perhaps most importantly 
"fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface
{b65ad801-abaf-11d0-bb8b-00a0c90f2744} of class
{34f82078-360b-4682-8275-0d9b0b641cbd}, hres is 0x800704e5"


In Word 2010, the add-in does not even show up in Word whatsoever. Trying to
manually launch the docear4word.exe installer from the Add-ins Window by using
"Add", there is also some debug output in the console (see attachment, 2nd
part).


The Add-in uses .NET, so an obvious question is how to handle the .NET. I tried
various approaches using several .NET versions and service packs via
winetricks, and I believe also mono. Nothing worked. I do not remember the
outcome of every single variant, but could try specific suggestions. 


This add-in is really important, since many in the science community are using
Linux, but have to work with MS Word via wine for several reasons. Most in the
science community use such plug-ins for reference management. Docear4Word is
perhaps the most promising, powerful, and viable one, since the Docear4Word
project strictly follows an FOSS approach. Getting this to work would thus be a
huge progress.

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