[dba-Tech] COM Add-Ins in MS Excel/MS Word/MS Access 2003 anybody?

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 21 12:45:58 CDT 2004


I dunno but this maybe what you are looking for developer cost $100 Euro's
Add-in Express (ADX) is a visual tool for creating COM add-ins, Smart 
Tags and RTD Servers for Microsoft Office Family applications in Visual 
Studio .NET and Delphi.
Otherwise you might want to search on IDTExtensibility2  and Com

http://www.add-in-express.com/home/visual_tool_for_com_add-ins_smart_tags_rtd_on_net_and_vcl.php

Do you want to do this without touching the dotnet framework? However 
Office 2003 installs at least basic dotnet framework.

While looking around for this

I found out there is a VSTO Version 2 for Visual Studio Tools for 
Office, Version 2005 Beta
VSTO being the Developers Edition for Office 2003

See sidelinks here
http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto2/archive/2004/06/30/170315.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/gettingstarted/vsto05beta/default.aspx


Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:

>Thank you, Marty!
>What your wrote about is good but a different story: these PIAs are the
>.NET shells/wrappers allowing to create COM-Add Ins, MS Office
>Automation and related applications and utilities in VS.NET...
>
>I'm looking how to do in MS Office 2003 what is described here for MS
>Office 2000 and MS Office XP Developer Edition:
>
>How To Create Office COM Add-Ins by Using VBA and Office Developer
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306130
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>Is that possible at all in any of MS Office 2003 Editions?
>
>TIA,
>Shamil
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>P.S.
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>>Just a SWAG but maybe this will give you some leads.
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>What SWAG abbreviation means?
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>From: "MartyConnelly" <martyconnelly at shaw.ca>
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
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>anybody?
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>>Just a SWAG but maybe this will give you some leads.
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>>What Are the Office XP Primary Interop Assemblies?
>>COM interop assemblies allow unmanaged (COM) code to be called from
>>managed (.NET) code by using the Microsoft .NET
>>Framework and the common language runtime. COM interop assemblies
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>allow
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>>managed applications to bind to unmanaged
>>types at compile time and provide information to the common language
>>runtime about how the unmanaged types should be
>>marshaled at run time.
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>>XP PIA
>>Download
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>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c41bd61e-3060-4f71-a6b4-01feba508e52&DisplayLang=en
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>>docs on xp pia
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoxpta/html/odc_oxppias.asp
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoxpta/html/odc_piaissues.asp?frame=true
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>>2003 PIA
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/stagsdk/html/stconPIAs.asp
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/stagsdk/html/stconWhatArePIAs.asp
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>http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=7444019b81c6aaad
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>>Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
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>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I know COM Add-ins can be written on VB6, C++. etc. That's clear.
>>>
>>>I've seen the info that in Office XP Developer Edition COM Add-Ins
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>can
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>>>be created from within e.g. MS Excel VBA. I don't have it here and so
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>I
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>>>cannot test that.
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>>>What about MS Office 2003? - I cannot find any info how to make COM
>>>Add-Ins in MS Office 2003 Professional? Is that possible at all?
>>>MS Office 2003 doesn't have Developer edition as far as I know - so I
>>>expected that Professional Edition should have a feature of creating
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>COM
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>>>Add-Ins. Do you have any links to the information describing how it
>>>can(/should) be done?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>Shamil
>>>
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>>>Web:   http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s
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>>Victoria, B.C.
>>Canada
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