[AccessD] No Office 2003 ODE (Office Developer Edition)?

Jim DeMarco Jdemarco at hshhp.org
Thu Aug 7 13:14:25 CDT 2003


Gustav,

Although the process I saw looked similar to adding a reference to the Excel library the difference was you can actually run the app from within VS (meaning Launch Excel and step through the code).  Yes of course you can do that from with Excel's VBA IDE (and from Access or VB to a certain degree) but that brings me to point #2.  Once this application is compiled a reference to the app (dll) is set in the workbook.  You open the workbook and you can run the code.  The ever annoying "this workbook contains macros" warning is nowhere to be found because you're running the code from outside of Excel.  If you run the component on a network it's smart enough to check for new versions and if one is found it's copied down to the PC's local cache so deployment is assisted as well.  And it includes security so that if someone replaces your dll with one containing some evil code the app will not use it as it knows the signature of the dll it references.

We're an Access/VB/SQL house anyway so maybe this is just a more logical step for us than if we weren't but just the bit of a demo I saw made the office tools look pretty valuable.  

Jim DeMarco



-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:53 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] No Office 2003 ODE (Office Developer Edition)?


Hi Jim

> Ken Getz did a demo of the Excel/Word tools last week at VSLive.
> These are really neat tools that let you develop a Word or Excel
> application from within Visual Studio.

But why should one do that?

I'm still confused on a higher level. No wonder MS asks in surveys to
their dealers if we understand .net strategy and if we promote it to
our clients. 
And boy if the asked the same about Access and Access development?
What answer could I possibly give?

/gustav

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