Re: MicroSoft Office Development Tool Kit (SDK)
- From: Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:45:16 -0800
Office 2002(XP) Developer Edition has the separate Office Development Tools
along with some other tools like Workflow Designer for SQL Server and Workflow
Designer for Exchange 2000 Server and Visual SourceSafe and Code Librarian.
Gord
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:19:38 -0600, "Chip Pearson" <chip@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Alton Jones" <AltonJones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Perhaps one has to buy MS Office Professional and then has to buy some
sort
of plug-in/add-in to enable the user to have resell rights of their custom
developed application...
Nope. You can develop and distribute applications in any written in any
Office application (and with the Visual Studio applications) without paying
any royalties to or getting permission from Microsoft. The only restriction
is that there are a few controls that you cannot distribute. These are
listed in a file called "Reedits.txt". Also, you cannot distribute the host
application itself (e.g., Excel or PowerPoint) with your application. Your
end users must have their own copy of the host application.
You may well be thinking of what MS called the Developer's Edition of
Office. This included a number tools and utilities for developing
Office-based applications. These included, if memory serves, the Window API
Text Viewer program, the Code Librarian, SPY++, and a few others. I have
Visual Studio 6 Enterprise, 2002, 2003, and 2005 Professional, so I forget
what programs were included with what package. The most important, in my
opinion, were the tools and libraries in the Developer's Edition that
allowed you to create COM Add-Ins in the VBA Editor, rather than with only
Visual Studio. I write all my Add-Ins in VB6 or VB.NET/VSTO, but for
developers who don't want to shell out the big bucks for VS, the Office
Developer's Edition's ability to create COM Add-Ins is quite important. I
think MS sold the Developer's Edition tools and utilities as a separate
package up through Office 2002.
I believe, but I'm not sure, that starting with 2003, the Developer's Tools
were incorporated with the Professional/Enterprise Editions of Office, but
not the Standard and Student/Teacher's versions. So if you have Office 2003
Professional/Enterprise, you have the Developer's Tools. I don't believe you
can purchase them as a separate package any more.
I don't know what versions of Office 2007 will include the Developer's Tools
(there are 7 (count 'em 7!!) different configurations of Office 2007,
starting with Student/Home Edition up through Ultimate ). I use Office 2007
Ultimate, which includes everything. See
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX100487411033.aspx?pid=CL100571081033
for info about the various configurations of Office 2007.
.
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