291163: How to Create a COM Add-in for Outlook 2002

[Stephen \(StudioTwo\)]

Hello,
I have written a form using outlook 2002 vba.
It would be nice to learn how to deploy this within the office as a com
addin.
To this end, Microsoft have posted the following document:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291163#Need

What You Need to Create a COM Add-in
=============================
In addition to Outlook, you need one of the following development
environments to create a COM add-in for Office or Outlook:
1] Visual Basic 5.0 or later (Visual Basic 6.0 is preferred)
2] Microsoft Office Developer, which includes the ability to compile a
Visual Basic for Applications project into a Dynamic Link Library (DLL)
3] Any other COM-compliant development environment, such as Microsoft Visual
C++ or Microsoft Visual J++

Looking through some old postings within this newsgroup, I assume the above
should read "Visual Basic 5.0 *Professional* or later".
I was all set to purchase vb .net standard edition for £80. But am I correct
in thinking I will have to spend nearer £900 (VB Studio) in order to acheive
this task?
If so, that's way above my budget for such a little taster project.

TIA
Stephen

[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

"Stephen (StudioTwo)" <st********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have written a form using outlook 2002 vba.
It would be nice to learn how to deploy this within the office as a com
addin.
To this end, Microsoft have posted the following document:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291163#Need

What You Need to Create a COM Add-in
=============================
In addition to Outlook, you need one of the following development
environments to create a COM add-in for Office or Outlook:
1] Visual Basic 5.0 or later (Visual Basic 6.0 is preferred)
2] Microsoft Office Developer, which includes the ability to compile a
Visual Basic for Applications project into a Dynamic Link Library (DLL)
3] Any other COM-compliant development environment, such as Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft Visual J++

Looking through some old postings within this newsgroup, I assume the above should read "Visual Basic 5.0 *Professional* or later".
I was all set to purchase vb .net standard edition for £80. But am I correct in thinking I will have to spend nearer £900 (VB Studio) in order to acheive this task?
If so, that's way above my budget for such a little taster project.

I'm not an interop expert, but I don't believe that .NET-based languages can
create standalone COM servers. Item 1) may therefore actually need to read
"Visual Basic 5.0 or 6.0" as opposed to "or later."