Re: office 2000 compatibility

Thanks for the suggestions. In my case, this add-in is just the middleware
to build the toolbar, handle button events, and call the appropriate COM
methods (which has already been tested for Office 97/2000 compatibility). So
I'm using a pretty limited set of methods in the Word object model. Since
this add-in must be compatible with Word 2000/XP/2003, I started with what I
have installed and definitely plan to test/debug with the other versions.

There was another add-in project written in C# that used the approach I
talked about. The team of developers had various versions of Office
installed on their machines depending on what they were developing. I can't
say how well that approach worked since I just started on this project in the
last 2 weeks.

I found a used book on Amazon for "Office 2000 Developer's Guide" but
haven't ordered it yet. Microsoft has references to it in various articles
and unfortunately doesn't provide an archive copy in the MSDN subscriber
downloads. Can you recommend any good books?

Thanks,
Jerry

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?SmVycnkgTg==?=,
>
> I can't answer all your questions, but the most immediate ones...
>
> > I am writing a COM addin and it must be compatible with Word 2000. I have a
> > few questions:
> >
> > Do I need to use "Office 2000 Developer SDK"?
> >
> I'm not sure such a thing exists. But you definitely want to use Word 2000 to do
> the development, and not 2003. You really have no choice but to obtain a copy of
> Word 2000 and install it. You can't "obtain" and use just the *.olb for Word
> 9.0, it doesn't work that way. You have to have the Word version installed.
>
> And, for what it's worth, Word 2000 has quite a few "oddities" in its automation
> interface. You don't even want to TRY developing in a later version, even with
> knowledge about what was and was not supported in that object model. You MUST be
> able to test and debug with that version.
>
> (I'm not talking theory, here, but experience from the only school that counts,
> hard knocks.)
>
> > Since I have Office 2003 installed on my machine, where can I get a copy of
> > the "mso9.dll" file (to import the typelib)?
> >
> > Are there any good COM addins samples written in C++?
> >
> > Are there any development, redistributable, or run-time issues to be aware of?
> >
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
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