I have written an excel add-in using vba and since I am quite pleased
with the outcome thought I would compile it as a COM add-in to protect
all my hard work (and also maybe make some of the .ocx controls a bit
more robust??). Some recent searches indicate that I need to upgrade
my Office version to the "Developer Edition" to do this (at the moment
I just have XP Pro). As far as I can tell though this upgrade is no
longer available though.

My add-in is <1Mb and I have worked hard to keep it that small so
distributing the .Net framework seems like a real over-kill. What are
my other options? Looking at MSDN it's almost as if vb (classic) and
COM never existed.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew