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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2006Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
I wondered what Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office would allow me to do better than just using VBA. Does anyone have any experiences? G'day "Jay" <nospam>, VS lets us compile stand-alone DLLs. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Jay reckoned: >I wondered what Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office would allow me to do better than just using VBA. >Does anyone have any experiences? Hi Jay, > I wondered what Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office would allow me to do better than just using VBA. > Does anyone have any experiences? In a nutshell: It makes it possible for you to use the .NET Framework library classes with code "built into" a Word document. It also provides programmed support for creating your own task panes and for data caching/exchange. On the downside, the solutions can be complicated to distribute outside a company-owned network since the code components don't actually travel with the document, but are contained in a separate assembly package. And trust must be granted to the assembly, as with any .NET solution. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) G'day Cindy M -WordMVP- <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch>, Cindy, I am using some of the .Net framework from within vba, so I guess you are saying there is more. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Cindy M -WordMVP- reckoned: >Hi Jay, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply >in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Steve, > I am using some of the .Net framework from within vba, so I > guess you are saying there is more. Can you expand on this? You have a managed Addin and are using a call-back? You're "hacking" a managed DLL using the Windows API? Considering the question has been asked in the vba.beginners group, these approaches are somewhat "out-of-scope", I think... Since Jay was asking what VSTO can do, as opposed to VBA, the ability to create independent DLLs is somewhat irrelevant... -- Cindy Meister Thanks for all the replies. Yes, I'm a 'relative' beginner in VBA for Word, but I am happy for others to ask non-beginners follow-up questions in this thread. Jay "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message news:VA.0000bb55.00559916@speedy... Hi Steve, > I am using some of the .Net framework from within vba, so I > guess you are saying there is more. Can you expand on this? You have a managed Addin and are using a call-back? You're "hacking" a managed DLL using the Windows API? Considering the question has been asked in the vba.beginners group, these approaches are somewhat "out-of-scope", I think... Since Jay was asking what VSTO can do, as opposed to VBA, the ability to create independent DLLs is somewhat irrelevant... -- Cindy Meister |
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