VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

mlstanley — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:26:39 GMT

Hmm, well I re-installed then said repair. I am still getting the error. I am applying the VS 2008 sp1 now lets see if that helps.

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

andreww — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:42:21 GMT

mlstanley - looks like you're missing some critical VSTO assemblies. IStartup is part of the VSTO 2005/SE runtime - so if the compiler can't find it, you probably don't have the VSTO 2005/SE runtime installed - or the installation is corrupt in some way. You can get the runtime here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8315654b-a5ae-4108-b7fc-186402563f2b

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

mlstanley — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:01:49 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply,

I am getting this error that starts the chain of what seem to be related errors.

Error 1 Type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.IStartup' is not defined. "pathinfo"Addin.Designer.vb 22 16 "myprojextname"

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

andreww — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:59:24 GMT

mlstanley - First, you don't need to recompile, as your add-in should just continue to work in Excel 2007. That said, if you want to continue developing, the import wizard that migrates your VS2005 project to VS2008 should have just worked - it would have given you an error report if it found any problems.

If the migrated project doesn't compile, why not? That is, what are the compiler error messages?

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

mlstanley — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:48:56 GMT

Andrew,

I built a Excel 2003 application Addin with VSTO SE v2 using VS 2005. I upgraded my IDE to VS 2008 and our compnay upgraded our Office to 2007. I imported my xls 03 addin project to VS 2008 but I can't seem to get to compile.

The addin seems to run just fine in xls 2008 from VS 2005.

I don't care about backwards complatblity to 03. but I would like to be able to dev and deploy with MSI installer on xls 07

any insight would be great.

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

andreww — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:20:39 GMT

Diana - each version of the VSTO runtime (including ServerDocument) is specific to a corresponding version of Office. This means that on a dev machine, you need to have at the least the version of the Office PIAs that correspond to the version of the VSTO runtime. This is enough for a solution to build.

If you also want to run the solution on that machine, then you will need both versions of Office also.

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

Diana Morabito — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:14:12 GMT

Does this mean that our developers need both Office 2007 AND Office 2003 installed on their systems?

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

andreww — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:04:49 GMT

Diana - there are different versions of the ServerDocument class. See the documentation on MSDN for details of how to write code that uses both versions to work with Office 2003 and 2007 documents: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb772081.aspx

re: VSTO Loader and Runtime Components

Diana Morabito — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:47:11 GMT

My application uses ServerDocument to add customization to user files before opening them. If I convert to a VSTO 2008 doc-level solution, can I use the same ServerDocument version to add customization to both 2003 and 2007 documents?

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hit41 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

After chatting with a few people about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) recently, it’s clear that the technology is not that well understood (even though, in my opinion, Microsoft have done a pretty good job of articulating it – much better than