VSTO for Visual Studio 2003? Anyone heard anything

[Simon Harvey]

Hi chaps,

Does anyone know if the beast is going to release Visual Tools for office to
work with Visual Studio 2002 and not just 2003, or are they quite happy to
shaft those that supported them when their product just cam out.

I can't see why the tools shouldnt work with 2002 seeing as its almost
identical to 2003.

Has anyone heard anything

Thanks everyone

Simon

[Arne Janning]

Hi Simon,

The VSTO requires the Office 2003 beta and the Office 2003 beta PIA's
installed. If the .NET framework 1.1 is not installed on your computer you
won't be able to install the PIA's at all.
The PIA's only work with .NET-framework 1.1. There is no way to bypass this.
Look at the Manifest of one of the PIA's:

..assembly extern mscorlib
{
.publickeytoken = (B7 7A 5C 56 19 34 E0 89 ) //
..z\V.4..
.ver 1:0:5000:0
}

This is .NET framework 1.1 (1.0 would be ".ver 1:0:3300:0")

As you can't develop 1.1 applications with VS.NET 2002 your only chance is
to upgrade.

Cheers

PS: If you have a non-english version of VS.NET 2003 is doesn't work either.
You need an English version of VS.NET 2003.

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Hi chaps,

Does anyone know if the beast is going to release Visual Tools for office to work with Visual Studio 2002 and not just 2003, or are they quite happy to
shaft those that supported them when their product just cam out.

I can't see why the tools shouldnt work with 2002 seeing as its almost
identical to 2003.

Has anyone heard anything

Thanks everyone

Simon