managed addins support in Office 12

re: managed addins support in Office 12

skeptic — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:39:55 GMT

Your entire post seems to describe a future version of VSTO, NOT Office. Will the features you describe ship with Office 12?

re: managed addins support in Office 12

Misha Shneerson — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:27:16 GMT

I talk about features I develop or have direct relationship to what I do. In this case VSTO does the AddinLoader.dll but Office 12 does the integration with the loader (in Office 2003 there is none). This integration allows, for example, to avoid the registration of the managed addins HKCR as well as manifest-based blacklisting.

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re: managed addins support in Office 12

Wei — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:12:50 GMT

Your description sounds the "shimming" problem to me, which can be avoided by using a customized shim, even without VSTO.

On the other hand, does VSTO just add another shim without letting use to know, yet it always use same shim ( AddinLoader.dll ) so it's not solving the original mscoree.dll problem.

Am I correct?

re: managed addins support in Office 12

Misha Shneerson — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:50:44 GMT

VSTO add-ins on Office 2003 are loaded through AddinLoader.dll. In Office 2003 AddinLoader.dll is indeed the entry point for VSTO add-ins similarly to mscoree.dll when you use regasm'ing. And once one VSTO add-in is blacklisted - all the rest will follow the suit.

Office 2007 does not blacklist AddinLoader.dll - instead it blacklists a manifest file for this specific addin.

In a sense, the benefits of loading of VSTO add-ins in Office 2007 are compariable to the old good "shimming" solution but now that you do not need to write the "shim" and bear all the development costs associated with it.

But there is more to VSTO addins than just loading. Among additional goodies coming from VSTO addins that shipped with VSTO2005SE - ribbons support, custom task pane support (which does not require managed control to be regasm'ed), Excel addins get LCID Proxy support.

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