Hi All,

Our product uses VSTO addin for Excel/Word. We are also trying to use an
application wide smart document. For this, the VSTO actions pane does not
suffice and we had to create our own pane using the unmanaged
ISmartDocument.

VSTO loads its own app-domain and hence we wanted to use the same appdomain
in ISmartDoc. But the problem is that sometimes the SmartDoc Initialization
happens before the VSTO addin is loaded. This results in waiting for an
appdomain that has not been created yet.

We can not have two app-domains for obvious reasons. Is it a known issue
that either of the two i.e; smart doc or the addin can load before the
other? Also it there a way to mitigate it?

Thanks
~ rahul