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Is installing Office 2003 a must for using Visual Tools for Microsoft Office System (with VS.NET 2003)?

Could it be used with Office XP (2002), or perhaps just the new libraries would be enough (version 11)?

Please help, because Im in a quite a big trouble!
Thanks!
 
Is installing Office 2003 a must for using Visual Tools for Microsoft Office System (with VS.NET 2003)?
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Yes, MS has moved its developing platform for MS Office to .NET which require the latest version

Kind regards,
Dennis
 
Well... Ive worked with Office XP and Office 2003 on both VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003.

What it used to do is only to import the right Interop DLL. So as long as your version of office have a COM that is compatible with VS.NET ... Itll probably work.
 
Hummmm... Am I having hallucination ?

Well... Im with Office XP at my work... and Im working with Office in my ASP.NET and WinForms application.

Here is information from the reference :
Name : Interop.Microsoft.Office.Core
Description : Microsoft Office 10.0 Object Library (OfficeXP, 2003 is 11.0)

Well... maybe Im crazy but you might explain why you said this :

XL-Dennis said:
Yes, MS has moved its developing platform for MS Office to .NET which require the latest version
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Because Im working with Office XP (2002) dll and its not the latest version (refereing to 2003) and everything is working.

Explain me because your misleading me. :-\

(Unless you are refer to the office object under .NET tab)
 
Thanks for the precision.

Yeah it seems cool. Since it dont act as COM object (while still being one) anymore and can reduce production time.

Ill have to keep up to date and keep an eye on the developement of this. My first preoccupation about this... is the version of office. Will further version will have backward compatibility ? I mean by this... its using Office 2003. Not everybody have it. What about further version of VSTO ? And what about Office 2004 VSTO and Office 2005 VSTO ? Will they support Office 2003 VSTO or will user will be forced to update their Office version ?

Hummmm... so much questions... so few anwser..... AAAGRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!
:p lollll
 
I agree that is a little bit confusing and it raise more questions then there are answers to...

Anyway, using the COM-approach to automate office will still be a valid and workable way with .NET and I guess this will be the de facto standard as long as we still need to work with older versions, i e 97 and above, of Office.

In pure technical terms its about controling unmanaged code with managed code ;)

MS has always had a good strategy for backward compatibility but since .NET represent a total different technical-platform then we need to accept the changes.

But as long as the COM-approach is available we are assured to have a backward compatibility.

As for VSTO, its still under developing like VS.NET itself so let see what the next coming versions next year will contain :)

Kind regards,
Dennis
 
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