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Andrew Whitechapel

Visual Studio, Office and other Nonsense

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COM Shim Wizard 2.3.1.0
We’ve released a slight update to the COM Shim Wizard. This is available as a free download here , and the covering article is on MSDN here . The differences Between v2.3.0.0 and v2.3.1.0 are summarized below. Setup The major difference between v2.3.0.0 Read More...
Add-ins for Multiple Office Versions without PIAs (Pt2), or _VtblGap
In my last post , I discussed how you could avoid any dependency on the Office PIAs by using ComImport to redefine the host application’s OM interfaces. Someone (A Developer) pointed out that I had actually omitted the trailing 2 members of the IRibbonControl Read More...
COM Developers are from Mars, VBA Developers are from Venus, or: Typing, Binding and Wrapping in Office Development
I paused over my final mince pie today, and pondered the psychology of Office developers (as one does). Office development is a curious mix of different programming philosophies that has given rise to a number of interesting behavioral practices among Read More...
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