Com-Add-Ins for Office 2000 with Developer XP?

[Peter Marchert]

Hello together,

I installed office xp on a testcomputer with 98se and office 2000. I can
open a project and compile it. But if the developer would write the dll I
get an error message "link.exe not found". I searched on the computer and
this exe-file does not exists.

So I copied the file link.exe from the computer on that I compile my
projects under xp in all relevant directories on the testcomputer. But the
message is still the same.

Now my question: is it possible to make com-add-ins for office-2000 programs
with the developer xp? If not, what other software does I need to make
com-add-ins under 2000?

Thanks for any kind of help in advanced!

PS: I am german and if somebody can speak german, so please answer in
german - thanks.

Peter

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Unless you late bind all your Outlook objects (Dim As Object) you will have
to compile on a machine with Outlook 2000 installed to be able to run on
Outlook 2000.

The rule of thumb is to compile on a machine with the earliest version of
Outlook you want to support installed on the development machine. Then you
early bind to whatever is in that object model and late bind to everything
else. Or your main DLL can call another, separately compiled DLL compiled
under the later version if you need early binding when your code discovers a
later version of Outlook installed.

 

[Peter Marchert]

Hello Ken,

thank you for your answer and your time you spended for it. I hope I
understand it correctly, because it was transleted from somebody for me. If
not, don`t care about my writing.

I`m sorry to tell you, that I had a mistake in my thread. With "office xp" I
did`nt mean "Office XP", but "Developer XP". Developer XP is installed and
Office 2000 is installed. Compiling is no problem, but writing the dll does
not work.

Peter

PS: It`s urgent, people are waiting for an 2000-Version of one program.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Developer probably changed some of the DLL's or TLB's. I keep a special
virtual machine with Outlook 2000 on it just for compilations. I mostly
develop on an Outlook 2003 workstation but do all my compilations on the
virtual machine. I'd suggest some arrangement like that for you.

 

[Peter Marchert]

Ken, thank you for your message.

This is a good idea and I will do this in the near future.

Peter