If one is developing a .NET application, how can I develop an application
that uses COM automation that targets multiple versions of Word? For
example, the signature for the Document.Open method is different from
version 9 to version 11 (and I'm sure there are other variations as well),
and I'm wondering if there's some easy way to deal with it.
At present I'm only concerned with supporting 9-11 (i.e. Word 2000, XP, and
2003), though I'd like to be flexible enough to deal with future versions as
well. How are developers dealing with this sticky situation now?
evan stone | software engineer
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santa rosa, ca, usa
Nov 17 '05
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> If you have the original installs of those products, then you should
be able to get the type libraries.
I'm sure we've got Office 2000 around here somewhere. It's just a matter of
getting the OLB file and then using the TLBIMP utility to generate the type
libraries, correct? I just found out about the TLBIMP utility this morning,
so it's interesting that you mentioned it as well.
I'll take a look at it, but for now I seem to have a handle on things. I
still need to generate libraries for Office 2000 (v9), however, but it's not
urgent at the moment. I'm hoping that I can develop to the version 9
interface and all will be well, per the info in the MS KB.
Thanks!
evan stone | software engineer
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santa rosa, ca, usa
> Not if you choose the right tools, and C# is not such tool, programming against Office is where VB.NET has got it over C# hands-down. For example
VB.NET supports late binding at the language level, no need to resort to
reflection, VB.NET supports optional parameters, named parameters and
passing expressions to ref. parameters, whereas C# does not.
Very interesting. Actually I'm finding the automation with C# to be not as
bad as I had originally thought it would be. However, if using VB.NET would
make it much easier, then perhaps writing an Adapter/Wrapper in VB.NET that
could be consumed by the rest of my C# application might make a lot of
sense. For the time being, C# has been working fine, but if I really have to
do some hardcore automation then perhaps I might do exactly that.
Thanks for the suggestion!
evan stone | software engineer
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santa rosa, ca, usa
> Instead of setting a reference in VS.NET to the COM object, use the TLBIMP utility to generate the type libraries.
That utility will allow you to specify the
namespace that the types in the assembly are in.
Will TLBIMP create the four DLLs I need:
- Interop.Office. dll
- Interop.VBIDE.d ll
- Interop.Word.dl l
- office.dll
Thanks!
evan stone | software engineer
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