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of the most frequently asked questions is will Office 2003 support .NET. Yes
and no is the answer. Use Visual Studio Tools for Office to automate documents
and workbooks using Visual Basic .NET (or Visual C# .NET) that's written in
the in the next version of Visual Studio—Visual Studio .NET 2003. This is good
news for the Office developers that are using .NET elsewhere as they won't
have to wait for .NET to actually be incorporated in Office in the proper
sense. While it isn't a full Office .NET package, it's more than XP offers,
which supports limited .NET customization that can't associate .NET routines
with a specific Office file. Those of you already in the process of moving to
.NET can get a jump on Word and Excel applications. </LI></UL>
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don't think that really answers anyone's questions, but... </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jdolby@gately.com href="mailto:jdolby@gately.com">Jack Dolby</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=accessd@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">'Access Developers discussion and
problem solving'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD] No Office 2003 ODE
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<P><FONT size=2>What is being developed is not a vba-equivalent program in
dotnet... it is an automation application.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Thus you are creating a dotnet app (usually in vb.net since
there are some c# issues with the 2003 tools under c#) that will create or act
upon word or excel files.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>As far as I know, MS has not even started rumors on when
dotnet would migrate into the world currently occupied by vba.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>The dotnet office tools are, as stated earlier, only for word
and excel 2003.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Hth,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>jack</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>---</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>I've
wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>and I'm
happy to state I finally won out over it.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Elwood P.
Dowd</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=2> </FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>From:
Charlotte Foust [<A
href="mailto:cfoust@infostatsystems.com">mailto:cfoust@infostatsystems.com</A>]
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:34 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Subject: RE: [AccessD] No Office 2003 ODE (Office Developer
Edition)?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I think the idea is that you develop it in VS.Net and then
deploy it in</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>*either* Word or Excel.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Charlotte Foust</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>From:
Gustav Brock [<A href="mailto:gustav@cactus.dk">mailto:gustav@cactus.dk</A>]
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:53 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Subject: Re: [AccessD] No Office 2003 ODE (Office Developer
Edition)?</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Hi Jim</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>> Ken Getz did a demo of the Excel/Word tools last week at
VSLive. These</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>> are really neat tools that let you develop a Word or
Excel application</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>> from within Visual Studio.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>But why should one do that?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I'm still confused on a higher level. No wonder MS asks in
surveys to</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>their dealers if we understand .net
strategy and if we promote it to our</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>clients.
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>And boy if the asked the same about Access and Access
development? What</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>answer could I possibly give?</FONT>
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<P><FONT size=2>/gustav</FONT> </P>
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