How .NET Garbage collection is affected my Word PIA Add-In

[hav]

Hello - I wrote an add in for Office 11, and had many of the usual
problems you find on microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins &
microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office. Now we have written a SHIM,
and have the problem now with the garbage collection: Word add-in is
a tool which opens and places a report into Word 2003, however if the
third application is closed, there is a crash - it looks very ugly. I
am wondering if moving from vb.net add-in + cpp shim to VSTO could
possibly be a solution?
Thanks,
H.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Hav,

I wrote an add in for Office 11, and had many of the usual
problems you find on microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins &
microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office. Now we have written a SHIM,
and have the problem now with the garbage collection: Word add-in is
a tool which opens and places a report into Word 2003, however if the
third application is closed, there is a crash - it looks very ugly. I
am wondering if moving from vb.net add-in + cpp shim to VSTO could
possibly be a solution?

Which third application?

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

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[hav]

Provision. I am not going so great with this - boss wants a seperate
installer so if the add-in doesn't place the commandbar in Word then
it can be done 'manually' with an exe, however running into all sorts
of problems with scope/gac etc. The thinking behind this is the
clients must have the 1.1 and 2 frameworks, and the PIA'z installed (a
complete Office installation does this but how to check the client
does a full install? We already need them to have both .net's and
not .net 3....). This could be because the gac has seperate gac_32
and gac_msil directories for 64bit and backwards compatability.
Basically we just don't trust addins to always work and seriously are
thinking about vsto.

Any thoughts?
Thx

hav