Visual Studio 2005 and MS Word 2000 Add-in

[Keith Avery]

I've gone through all the technical problems using Visual Studio 2003 to
successfully create a Word AddIn that works fine using Word 2000, Word
2002/XP and Word 2003.

We now want to switch to using Visual Studio 2005 so that we use the .NET
Framework v2 rather than v1.1.

The conversion to VS 2005 worked fine and the AddIn works fine with Word
2002/XP and Word 2003, but not Word 2000.

Does anyone have any idea why it isn't working with Word 2000? I replicated
the problem by creating a test AddIn using VS 2005. The AddIn doesn't seem to
even attempt to startup when Word 2000 is first started.

Thanks
Keith Avery
KA Technology

 

[XL-Dennis]

Hi Keith,

In my experience with Excel (2000 - 2007) I can suspect that the issue may
be one of the following:

- Using autogenerated IA instead of creating a set IA manually (TLBExp.exe)
- Loadbehaviour changes from 3 to 2 due to 'some code' in the OnConnection
Event.

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With kind regards,
Dennis
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[Keith Avery]

You are right the LoadBehaviour changes from 3 to 2.

For my test app created using the Visual Studio AddIn wizard all that is in
the OnConnection is

applicationObject = application;
addInInstance = addInInst;

I've not used TLBExp.exe and don't think it is relevant in this example.

Thanks for your help.

 

[XL-Dennis]

Keith,

See if the following fix can solve the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002/

It's been reported to solve the issue with LoadBehavior and I always include
it in my solutions.

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With kind regards,
Dennis
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My English site: http://www.excelkb.com/default.aspx
My Swedish site: http://www.xldennis.com/

 

[Keith Avery]

THANK YOU! It's now working fine.

 

[XL-Dennis]

You're welcome

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With kind regards,
Dennis
Weekly Blog .NET & Excel: http://xldennis.wordpress.com/
My English site: http://www.excelkb.com/default.aspx
My Swedish site: http://www.xldennis.com/