Re: VSTO2005 - Does it support Office 2007?

You need add VSTO2005SE (its name is Visual Studio Office Tool For MS Office
System 2007) on top of VSTO2005 or VS2005Pro. With VSTO2005SE installed, you
can target either Office2003 or Office2007. But I believe, a VSTO project
must either target Office2003 or Office2007, but not both. IMO, VSTO is
still not worth investing too much, it is still in its early stage and
changeing so much from version to version, that version compatibility is
close to none. Also, the requirement of Office Pro or stand-alone
Word/Excel/Outlook kills most development plan (I do not know if this
requiremt is still true for Office2007, but how many users is shifting to
Office2007 in a year?).


"Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uiCn09oRHHA.5040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WaterObjects.NET.IDSE
XP/Office 2003
Vista/Office 2003
XP/Office 2007
Vista/Office 2007

VSTO 2003 Built

(.Net 1.1 dependency)
Works
Works
Message about not being able to initialize correctly.
Works

VSTO 2005 Built

(.Net 2.0 dependency)
Works*
Works*
Takes down Excel hard.
RTE when opening model, otherwise works.



Not sure how the above table will come out on this news group, but I've
been testing an Excel 2003 targeted VSTO Add-In against 4 different
OS/Office combos.

XP/Office2003
Vista/Office2003
XP/Office2007
Vista/Office2007

and building with VSTO2003, VSTO2005... targeting Office 2003.

Now, I was kind of hoping that if I targeted Office 2003 (with an Office
2003 document) that it would also work on Office 2007, but that seems not
to be the case. Actully I had better success with the same app built with
VSTO2003 which ran fine on Office2007/Vista, but the same solution built
with VSTO2005 hits some weird UE in some code that uses reflection to load
an assembly.

When it comes to Office2007/XP neither VSTO2003 or VSTO2005 were up to the
job. The VSTO2003 built guy cannot "intialize" and the VSTO2005 built guy
takes down Excel 2007 hard.

All the while another VBA Add-In I have, written for Excel 2000, works
just fine in Office 2007....

Is Office 2007 support there yet, or not officially? I don't mind if it
isn't, but if it is supposed to be then I'm missing something.... like
maybe you MUST target Office 2007 when you build? That would be OK - just
two different deployments to deal with, but no biggie.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

Wayne.



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