VSOfficeDeveloper: Known Problems, Bugs, and Fixes

A listing of known problems, bugs, and pending fixes associated with Office Core Products specific to Visual Studio (VB, C#, C++) Development.

If you are working with a VSTO or managed code solution for Office, you may encounter a...

Date: 10/10/2008

Symptom Managed code solutions that use classes from the System.Data or System.Xml name may...

Date: 10/10/2008

You may encounter an OLE_E_CLASSDIFF (0x80040008) error on calls to OleRun or IOleObject::DoVerb...

Date: 10/08/2008

Symptoms You may encounter an OLE_E_CLASSDIFF (0x80040008) error on calls to OleRun or...

Date: 10/08/2008

If you use a Cisco CSS switch for load balancing or content caching to a SharePoint Server farm, you...

Date: 10/03/2008

The Microsoft Excel 2007 XLL SDK introduced a new data structure, the XLOPER12, which allows your...

Date: 09/10/2008

A problem was recently discovered with the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack file converters when used...

Date: 05/29/2008

Symptoms If you create a document library in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) with a custom...

Date: 05/29/2008

When publishing an InfoPath Form Template (XSN file) to multiple servers (i.e. a development server...

Date: 05/19/2008

Summary When publishing an InfoPath Form Template (XSN file) to multiple servers (i.e. a development...

Date: 05/19/2008

The following post offers documentation on the Office 2007 MIME Types that can be used for HTTP...

Date: 05/08/2008

Summary Office 2007 introduced new file formats for common document types (Word documents, Excel...

Date: 05/08/2008

The following error occurs when opening a read-only Visio Drawing from an ODMA Document Management...

Date: 05/07/2008

Summary The following error occurs when opening a read-only Visio Drawing from an ODMA Document...

Date: 05/07/2008

ActiveX Controls used in Office applications with VBA must have at least their type library...

Date: 04/21/2008

Summary ActiveX Controls used in core Office Applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or...

Date: 04/21/2008

When calling ShellExecute to open an Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will fail with...

Date: 04/16/2008

Summary When calling ShellExecute to open of Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will...

Date: 04/16/2008

When attempting to copy and paste OLE or OCX objects from Office applications running on a remote...

Date: 04/14/2008

Problem When you attempt to copy an OLE object or ActiveX Control (OCX) from an Office application...

Date: 04/14/2008

Managed addins/components that sink events on the Application object may cause problems with OLE...

Date: 04/11/2008

Summary If you build a managed component that loads into Excel's process space, and the managed code...

Date: 04/11/2008

XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command to obtain shape data may fail in Excel 2007 because a...

Date: 04/09/2008

Summary Microsoft Excel XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command with the command type 42 to...

Date: 04/09/2008

Office 2007 introduces a new save behavior for ActiveX Controls (OCX) saved directly in Word, Excel,...

Date: 04/04/2008

Summary As part of the change for default file formats in Microsoft Office 2007, ActiveX Controls...

Date: 04/04/2008

Microsoft Office 2007 applications can make an HTTP HEAD request to the URL location where a...

Date: 03/11/2008

Summary When opening documents from a URL location in Microsoft Office 2007, the Office library can...

Date: 03/11/2008

Web sites that use an Excel 97-2003 MIME type to open conent streamed from the web server may find...

Date: 03/11/2008

Summary Web sites that use the "application/x-msexcel" or "application/vnd.ms-excel" MIME type to...

Date: 03/11/2008

Users often send documents to each other as Outlook attachments. Depending on how the attachments...

Date: 02/25/2008

Emailing forms and documents from one user to another is a common way of performing workflows in...

Date: 02/25/2008

Developers working with Microsoft Office files can now freely download he specifications for both...

Date: 02/18/2008

Managed code exported via COM Interop may not load correctly inside of Word or Excel VBA if the...

Date: 02/15/2008

ActiveX controls saved in Office 2007 using the IPersistPropertyBag interface may encounter...

Date: 02/15/2008

When using OLE 1.0 objects in Word, you may experience problems in getting the presentation metafile...

Date: 02/15/2008

Summary The Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework includes a lockback policy that intentionally prevents the...

Date: 02/15/2008

Summary An ActiveX control that implements IPersistPropertyBag for property persistence may...

Date: 02/15/2008

Summary When you insert an OLE 1.0 Object into a new document using Word 2002 or Word 2003, the...

Date: 02/15/2008