Using .Net 2003 with Excel 2003 and O2K

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Tim Zych - 05 Aug 2005 23:25 GMT

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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Extreme Datasets - 06 Aug 2005 23:26 GMT

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

> 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
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> Thanks.

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Tim Zych - 07 Aug 2005 18:09 GMT

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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Uday Takbhate [MSFT] - 19 Sep 2005 07:47 GMT

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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rox.scott - 07 Sep 2005 05:50 GMT

If you want to keep up with the latest features of Excel then get XL 2003,
but clients running the app will also need that version. To build a version
using XL 2000 that will be forward compatible see:
http://www.devcity.net/Articles/163/1/article.aspx

--scott

> 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
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> Thanks.

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