I have created a VB.NET application. A number of reports may generated from a form, and 2 of them use office automation to create reports in WORD templates.
The reports work well, but I have 2 querie about deployment on target machines.
1. I can't find a way for the application to check for the installation of WORD on the target machine, so that the report can exit cleanly if it is not installed.
2. Do I have to install WORD PIA's on the target machine? If so, how do I establish which version of the PIA's to install? How is the installation carried out?
I have searched Microsoft site, and others, but have not been able to find a solution to these queries.