Compability issues when deploying Office .NET solution

[Guga_x]

Hi

I have developed a .NET solution that has a call-out to an Excel sheet, just for visualization. I have office 2003 and VS .NET 2003 installed on my worstation. Everything works as it should on my machine. I compiled the setup and tested it on another machine that has office 2000. It didn't work. It could not open the excel file

My question is what should I do to keep my office integrating app retro compatible to at least office 2000? Do I need to install office 2000 on my cachine and use it's dlls and it will work with all the other newer version, or is there a way to keep my 2003 office installed on my worstation but still make the VS use earlier versions of the components

Thank you.

 

[Tom Winter]

You might want to ask your question in
microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office. I don't work with .NET, but... When
you want to work with multiple versions of Office, you need to design for
the OLDEST version you want to support. You'll want to design for Office
2000 (have it on your machine, etc.), and then it should work on Office
2003. But check with the .NET experts first. Working with multiple versions
of Office with .NET sounds like a real pain!
--
Tom Winter
(e-mail address removed)
www.AmosFiveSix.com

Hi,

I have developed a .NET solution that has a call-out to an Excel sheet,

just for visualization. I have office 2003 and VS .NET 2003 installed on my
worstation. Everything works as it should on my machine. I compiled the
setup and tested it on another machine that has office 2000. It didn't work.
It could not open the excel file.

My question is what should I do to keep my office integrating app retro

compatible to at least office 2000? Do I need to install office 2000 on my
cachine and use it's dlls and it will work with all the other newer version,
or is there a way to keep my 2003 office installed on my worstation but
still make the VS use earlier versions of the components?

 

[Siew Moi Khor [MS]]

Hi,
See my post re this at the link below. Thanks.
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=...8&group=microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office

Siew Moi