Hi Peter,

Can you please advise me of a more appropriate news group to post in? I have
contacted Microsoft Support and raised an incident ticket with them, but
they are not responding to my e-mails. We are Microsoft Certified partners
and have five incident tickets available to us.

On deeper investigation it seems the client is having issues with VSTO,
Excel (from Office Pro), when MS-Access XP (from Office XP) is already
installed.

Can you confirm if this is indeed a product limitation of Excel (Office 2003
Pro), that VSTO will fail to load when Office XP (MS-Access only) is
installed in parallel with Office 2003 Pro?

thanks again for your help,

Flip

""Peter Huang" [MSFT]" wrote in message
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Hi Flip,

Thanks for your quickly reply!
The code sample about J# is discussing the COM automation technique which
is somewhat different from the VSTO.

In the Automation scenario, the Winform application is the main app which
will invoke the methods of the Office application. While in the VSTO
scenario, the Office application started, and it loaded the .NET assembly
via VSTO. That can be considered as the .NET version "VBA" code.

Due the VSTO projects requirement in MSDN document is Office Professional
version, that is by design.

For the .NET security issue for the VSTO, that is necessary for any VSTO
application. That is commonly done via the caspol tool. This job should be
done when we want to deploy the project on client side.
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Training
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/odc_vsto200
3_tr/html/odc_VSTMGBLab5.asp

For your concern about deployment, I think it would better to be addressed
in the Microsoft Advisory Service in my last post.
This newsgroup is mainly talking about how to develop.

Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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