How can I add my controls into Office2003's TaskPane

[Xaero]

I want to produce an addin in Office2003, and I want to put my controls into taskpane
How can I do it

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I want to produce an addin in Office2003, and I want to put my controls into taskpane.
How can I do it

You can't. At least, not exactly as you describe. There is no way to directly create
your own task pane, or change the built-in ones (with very minor exceptions).

The only capability that lets you do anything with a TaskPane is a SmartDocument (based
on SmartTag technology). Based on an XML Schema, using a COM-DLL created in, say, VB6 or
..NET, you can define ActiveX controls in the Document Actions taskpane. When the user
opens an XML or WordML document in Word, based on the same schema, and clicks in an XML
tag for which you've defined ActiveX controls, these appear in the Document Actions task
pane. With them, the user can perform actions related to the XML range.

Go to the office part of msdn at microsoft.com and search on SmartDocument.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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