Creating Office Add-Ins in VB.NET

[NinuX]

With Office 2003 do we still need to create a COM add-in and have a shim DLL
to register them or is there a better (managed code) technology available for
adding toolbars. menus and panels in office apps ?

I can see how the VSTO 2005 lets you create a Word document with managed
code which can include Windows Forms panels, but is this technology available
to extent the Word / Excel interface directly - ie not by opening specific
word document but extending word/excel itself so it shows in ALL documents
which the user might work with

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TmludVg=?=,

With Office 2003 do we still need to create a COM add-in and have a shim DLL
to register them or is there a better (managed code) technology available for
adding toolbars. menus and panels in office apps ?

You still need to register a COM-Add-in and a shim DLL for Office 2003.

VSTO for Office 2007 will improve the situation. Currently, this is only
available as a Technology Preview, but I suspect the first beta will be out
soon.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=420023&SiteID=1

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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