Creating the Custom Task Pane in word 2003 using .Net 2.0

[sajin]

Hi all,

I am developing a task pane for word 2003 using VB .net 2005 (v 2.0) ,
i had implemented before by using v 1.0 (.net 2003) from vertigo smart
document wrapper , could any one help me to implement the same in v 2.0

Thanks in advance
Sajin

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Sajin,

I am developing a task pane for word 2003 using VB .net 2005 (v 2.0) ,
i had implemented before by using v 1.0 (.net 2003) from vertigo smart
document wrapper , could any one help me to implement the same in v 2.0

I think you first need to contact Vertigo and find out if the wrapper
should be expected to work in .Net 2.0. I've never seen it, but if it was
provided as compiled assembly it wouldn't work "as is" in 2.0.

FWIW, VSTO 2.0 was extended to include SmartDocument technology and
ActionsPanes (even without an attached XML schema). I wouldn't expect
that to have a direct affect on a strictly SmartDocument solution,
however.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[sajin]

Hi,
I contacted the vertigo for the solution , they said that in .net 2.0
they didn't develope the custom task pane , could you please tell me
how can i achive this by some other way ( i cannot use the .net 1.0
since we are using only 2.0 for our product)
Any other solution will do
Thanks in advance
Sajin

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Sajin,

I contacted the vertigo for the solution , they said that in .net 2.0
they didn't develope the custom task pane , could you please tell me
how can i achive this by some other way ( i cannot use the .net 1.0
since we are using only 2.0 for our product)

You'd need to either implement the SmartDocument interface, as
described in the SmartDocument documentation on msdn.

OR you'd need to invest in VSTO 2.0, which "wraps" the SmartDocument
interface even better than Vertigo did and lets you create an "Actions
pane" without even having to attach an XML schema to your document or
inserting XML tags (VSTO takes care of all of that).

For follow-ups, if VSTO is a possibility
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16&SiteID=1&Pag
eID=0

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
http://www.word.mvps.org

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