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Confused on MS Products to Create COM addin
Daniel, thanks for the info. I was looking on MS web site for Office
Developer about product to create COM addins and I am confused on what product to purchase. I need the COM addin to work in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. They have references to: 0 Microsoft Office XP Developer - but it appears that product is discontinued. 0 Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. This looks it will create a COM addin. 0 Visual Studio .NET 2003 - This sounds that whatever it produces will only work with Office 2003. Any help in clarifying the confusing MS marketing material is appreciated. Daniel Klann wrote: Bill, Unfortunately what the websites claim is correct regarding protection of the VBA project. I purchased a password cracking tool a couple of years ago (for legitimate purposes) and it can break any password. For example, I protect a project using this complex and long password (32 chars):- %^ll-02-+$j';L*30)65Jï£AKJ%_!~2 Because of the encryption algorithm used there are many possible combinations that could be used to break this e.g. T8H would unlock a VBA project protected with the above password. The encryption used for the file password in Excel is stronger than anything else used in Excel but can still be broken. In this case it is worth using a password that is long and complex. Anyway, creating your own COM addin is a fairly straightforward task but you need to have software that will allow you to create it e.g. Office Developer Edition, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Office Developer is probably the easiest method of converting an existing project into a COM addin. Hope that helps, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------ Excel tips 'n' tricks - http://www.danielklann.com ------------------------------------------------------ |
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If it creates a COM component it should be compatible with any product that
supports COM. That's the sales-pitch anyway. This thread appears to be a bit broken up, I can't see the original post, what are you trying to do? "Bill Bell" wrote in message news:oM9rb.146485$Fm2.126529@attbi_s04... Daniel, thanks for the info. I was looking on MS web site for Office Developer about product to create COM addins and I am confused on what product to purchase. I need the COM addin to work in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. They have references to: 0 Microsoft Office XP Developer - but it appears that product is discontinued. 0 Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. This looks it will create a COM addin. 0 Visual Studio .NET 2003 - This sounds that whatever it produces will only work with Office 2003. Any help in clarifying the confusing MS marketing material is appreciated. Daniel Klann wrote: Bill, Unfortunately what the websites claim is correct regarding protection of the VBA project. I purchased a password cracking tool a couple of years ago (for legitimate purposes) and it can break any password. For example, I protect a project using this complex and long password (32 chars):- %^ll-02-+$j';L*30)65Jï£AKJ%_!~2 Because of the encryption algorithm used there are many possible combinations that could be used to break this e.g. T8H would unlock a VBA project protected with the above password. The encryption used for the file password in Excel is stronger than anything else used in Excel but can still be broken. In this case it is worth using a password that is long and complex. Anyway, creating your own COM addin is a fairly straightforward task but you need to have software that will allow you to create it e.g. Office Developer Edition, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Office Developer is probably the easiest method of converting an existing project into a COM addin. Hope that helps, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------ Excel tips 'n' tricks - http://www.danielklann.com ------------------------------------------------------ |
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Confused on MS Products to Create COM addin
I am trying to provide better protection of the VBA addin than is
provided by the password protection capability. My understanding is you can convert it to a COM addin using something like MS Office Developer. I do not see that product listed on the MS website so I was asking about which product would be best to use. I need the COM addin to work in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. I wanted some user experience on which product to purchase. Michael Hopwood wrote: If it creates a COM component it should be compatible with any product that supports COM. That's the sales-pitch anyway. This thread appears to be a bit broken up, I can't see the original post, what are you trying to do? "Bill Bell" wrote in message news:oM9rb.146485$Fm2.126529@attbi_s04... Daniel, thanks for the info. I was looking on MS web site for Office Developer about product to create COM addins and I am confused on what product to purchase. I need the COM addin to work in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003. They have references to: 0 Microsoft Office XP Developer - but it appears that product is discontinued. 0 Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. This looks it will create a COM addin. 0 Visual Studio .NET 2003 - This sounds that whatever it produces will only work with Office 2003. Any help in clarifying the confusing MS marketing material is appreciated. Daniel Klann wrote: Bill, Unfortunately what the websites claim is correct regarding protection of the VBA project. I purchased a password cracking tool a couple of years ago (for legitimate purposes) and it can break any password. For example, I protect a project using this complex and long password (32 chars):- %^ll-02-+$j';L*30)65Jï£AKJ%_!~2 Because of the encryption algorithm used there are many possible combinations that could be used to break this e.g. T8H would unlock a VBA project protected with the above password. The encryption used for the file password in Excel is stronger than anything else used in Excel but can still be broken. In this case it is worth using a password that is long and complex. Anyway, creating your own COM addin is a fairly straightforward task but you need to have software that will allow you to create it e.g. Office Developer Edition, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Office Developer is probably the easiest method of converting an existing project into a COM addin. Hope that helps, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------ Excel tips 'n' tricks - http://www.danielklann.com ------------------------------------------------------ |
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