Re: Can I download OLB files from older versions of Office?

From: MikeR (MikeR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:55:17 -0800

Thanks.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> After re-reading your original question, the Office 2000 SDK may not be
> available as Microsoft was obliged to remove Office 2000 from distribution
> after the Sun settlement. It has been gone since January of 2003. Good
> luck in your hunt.
>
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> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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> After furious head scratching, MikeR asked:
>
> | I didn't think of that, although I should have. Do you happen to know
> | the key words to make the search easy? If not, I'll just search on
> | Office SDK and see what I get.
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
> | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
> |
> || Not even the old SDKs?
> ||
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> || After furious head-scratching, MikeR asked this group:
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> ||| Yes, I searched MSDN and got a lot of responses to the search, but
> ||| nothing that told me how to obtain the old object library files.
> |||
> ||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
> |||
> |||| Have you tried MSDN?
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> |||| After furious head-scratching, MikeR asked this group:
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> ||||| I am a developer and recently I wrote a program to access Excel to
> ||||| create a report from an Access database. It worked fine with 2003,
> ||||| but the user had 2000 installed on his computer and it crashed.
> ||||| The solution was to copy Excel9.olb from his computer and use it
> ||||| as the reference rather than referencing my version of Excel,
> ||||| even though all of the commands I used were valid in 2000.
> |||||
> ||||| Is there a resource where I can download the OLB files from older
> ||||| version of Office for each of the Office programs so I can prevent
> ||||| this problem in the future?
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