VSTO can be used only for Office 2003 Professional edition and above
versions and stand alone versions of Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
The following article speaks in detail regarding the prerequisites for
VSTO,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828087 If you want your add-in portable in all versions of Office (2000 and
above), then I will recommend you to go for the COM add-ins. Please note
that Office 97 is not COM add-in aware.
Please refer to the "COM Add-ins" section from the following article,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoxpta/htm
l/vsofficedev.asp
Regards,
Uday Takbhate [MSFT]
Microsoft Developer Support
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[quoted text, click to view] >From: "Tim Zych" <nosapsmafasdfasdf@nasdfasdfasdfasd.xxx>
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>thanks. I think what I really need, after poking around the net a bit more,
>is Visual Studio Tools for Office.
>I want to run managed code with Excel.
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>"Extreme Datasets" <ExtremeDatasets@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> Hello Tim,
>>
>> You don't need to buy office 2003 if you are not going to use anything
>other
>> than Excel, especially if you already have Excel. Then just add a
>reference
>> to the COM libraries you need to use. Let me know if this is helpful
>>
>> "Tim Zych" wrote:
>>
>> > I have Office 2000 Pro and VS.Net 2003. I would like to use .Net with
>Excel
>> > 2003 but I understand I need PIAs to interoperate Excel with .Net. If I
>buy
>> > only Excel 2003, will I be good to go, or must I buy Office 2003?
>> >
>> > Ideally, I'd like to use Office 2000, Excel 2003 and VS.Net 2003. Will
>that
>> > scenario work?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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