com add-in & developer beginner

[sydney]

Hi all
I have a word xp add-in template which loads all necessary customisation at
startup and have been asked to convert it a com addin.
My questions so far is;
1. If I develop the com add-in usingin VB.NEt, will it work on an
environment that does not use the .net framework or would I be safer using
vb6?

2. Can anyone point me to a Word com addin site tutorial site (besides the
msdn ones as I have tried that and am totally lost). I have found a few but
the tutorial is in c++.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Alex]

2. Can anyone point me to a Word com addin site tutorial site (besides the
msdn ones as I have tried that and am totally lost). I have found a few but
the tutorial is in c++.

Sidney, I just started with add-ins myself.

Here's some information that I found, may be helpful:
http://dave.thielen.com/articles.htm
http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wroriautomatingwordusingwordobjectmodel.asp
http://blogs.msdn.com/dancre/archive/2004/03/21/93712.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q302901
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311452
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_vsto2003_ta/html/WordObject.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...OfficeAdd-insWithVisualCNETVisualBasicNET.asp

Take care,
Alex.

 

[Tom Winter]

If your add-in is in .NET, you will need the framework.

VB6 may be "safer", but that depends on what you mean by safer. Office
doesn't "natively" support .NET, so you have to go through COM interop
stuff, which looks like it can be messy (I'm a VB6 guy, no actual .NET
experience). There is a lot more knowledge around about building COM Add-ins
using VB6. Alot of the .NET stuff with building COM add-ins seems to be hit
or miss. Of course .NET is the "official" MS way to go. Microsoft doesn't
make VB6 anymore, so....

 

[Eugene E. Starostin]

Hi,

Have a look on our Add-in Express at http://www.add-in-express.com/
It is the shortest way


Regards from Belarus
Eugene Starostin

 

[sydney]

Thanks everyone for your input, much appreciated.
I'll use vb6 and check out the tutorials.
add-in express looks cool but I've spent enough on software for now