VSTO Runtime Assembly Name Changes from Beta 2 to RTM

VSTO Team — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:11:00 GMT

If you created a project for Microsoft Office 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you will probably see a number of broken assembly references if you open the project in the final release of Visual Studio 2008. This is because most of the assemblies in the version of the VSTO runtime that is used for Microsoft Office 2007 projects were changed after Beta 2.

To fix the errors, replace any broken references to assemblies in the first column of the table below with a reference to the corresponding assembly name in the second column.

Beta 2 name	RTM name
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Common.dll	Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Excel.dll	Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Outlook.dll	Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Word.dll	Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.dll	Microsoft.Office.Tools.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.AddInBase.dll Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Common.dll Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.v9.0.dll (three assemblies from Beta 2 were merged into this one)
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.dll	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Runtime.dll	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Runtime.v9.0.dll

For more information about the purpose of each of these assemblies, see “Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608603(VS.90).aspx. Also, be sure to check out the podcast "Why a VSTO Runtime" at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2007/07/23/why-a-vsto-runtime.aspx for a brief history of the VSTO runtime and why there are different versions for each release of Microsoft Office.

Why a VSTO Runtime?

VSTO Team — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:25:00 GMT

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Duration 9:48
Size 7 MB

Thomas Quinn answers Christin's questions about why Visual Studio Tools for Office has its own runtime.

Related link:

Thomas Quinn's blog

The Managed Add-in Framework

VSTO Team — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:05:00 GMT

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Duration 14:33
Size 10 MB

Thomas Quinn talks with Christin about the VSTO runtime and the managed add-in framework.

Related links:
Thomas Quinn's blog

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System : Runtime

VSTO Runtime Assembly Name Changes from Beta 2 to RTM

Why a VSTO Runtime?

The Managed Add-in Framework