Trouble with vs 2008 excel add in walk through

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Hello,
I'm having some problems with msdn tutorial

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668205.aspx

Excel opens but the string that was supposed to be in A1 is not there ie "This text was added by using code"

I did everything as per instruction
Create Project Excel 2007 Add In
Copied code to relevant methods and events
Ran it,
Nothing
Here's the code as it stands

namespace FirstExcelAddIn
{
    public partial class ThisAddIn
    {
        private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Application.WorkbookBeforeSave += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.AppEvents_WorkbookBeforeSaveEventHandler(Application_WorkbookBeforeSave);
            
        }

        private void ThisAddIn_Shutdown(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
        }

        #region VSTO generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InternalStartup()
        {
            this.Startup += new System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Startup);
            this.Shutdown += new System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Shutdown);
        }
        
        #endregion
        void Application_WorkbookBeforeSave(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook Wb, bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
        {
            Excel.Worksheet activeWorksheet = ((Excel.Worksheet)Application.ActiveSheet);
            Excel.Range firstRow = activeWorksheet.get_Range("A1", missing);
            firstRow.EntireRow.Insert(Excel.XlInsertShiftDirection.xlShiftDown, System.Type.Missing);
            Excel.Range newFirstRow = activeWorksheet.get_Range("A1", missing);
            newFirstRow.Value2 = "This text was added by using code";
        }

    }
}

For a bit of fun I threw in a

throw new System.Exception("An exception has occurred.");

as the first line of the Application_WorkbookBeforeSave() method. It didn't throw. I get the impression the startup event is prevented from firing the attached method???

Using visual studio 2008, office 2007 pro, vista 64 and running as unlocked administrator (that's a private grievance). I checked for security settings in this type of project but there aren't any ie Project Properties > Security. Not there.

Sincere thanks for someone to click on link
Anthony Lawrence
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