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Andrew Whitechapel

Visual Studio, Office and other Nonsense

June 2007 - Posts

Can you build one add-in for multiple versions of Office?
This of course is the advantage of using the old "shared add-in" project types – you can build one add-in that targets all versions of all Office apps that support COM add-ins (ie, 2000 onwards). The question is, can you do something similar with VSTO Read More...
Why is VS development not supported with multiple versions of Office?
First, the Office client apps are COM-based. Normal COM activation relies on the registry. COM registration is a "last one wins" model. That is, you can have multiple versions of a COM server, object, interface or type library on a machine at the same Read More...
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