Johan Nordberg

Hi,

how do I create document based solutions for Office 2007 Is the best way to create an application level addin and check the attached template

// Johan




Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Document based solutions in Office 2007

Cindy Meister

Hi Johan

This functionality isn't available yet for production. It's part of the new version of Visual studio - Orcas. You should be able to download a preview (although it almost certainly won't contain everything that will be in the final, or even beta version) if you're curious. But don't try to do any serious development work with it :-)

You can create a document-level customization using VSTO 2005 for Office 2003. That should run OK under Office 2007 (as long as the newest version of VSTOR is installed). It doesn't provide an interface to work with new things the Ribbon, however. And the documents must be in the old compatible binary *.doc file format as long as they're attached to a VSTO solution.

Other than that... What is it you'd like to accomplish






Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Document based solutions in Office 2007

Johan Nordberg

Thanks for you fast reply!

For the time being I don't need to create document based solutions for Office 2007, but I guess clients will ask more and more about in soon. We're doing alot of word templates and excel customizations today with VBA och we're looking more and more at VSTO. I've done some Outlook addins with VSTO.

I must say I really looking forward to Orcas. As a web developer the new features for JavaScript is really great! And if the Office features are better as well that's just superb!

// Johan