Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office "Jay" <nospam> 02.03.2006 10:42:57 I wondered what Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office would allow me to do better than just using VBA. Does anyone have any experiences?

Re: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Word Heretic <myfullname[ at ]iinet.net.au> 07.03.2006 15:35:37 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: [Quoted Text] >I wondered what Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office would allow me to do better than just using VBA. >Does anyone have any experiences? >

Re: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Cindy M -WordMVP- <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 07.03.2006 22:00:01 Hi Jay, [Quoted Text] > 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 :-)

Re: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Word Heretic <myfullname[ at ]iinet.net.au> 08.03.2006 09:30:32 G'day Cindy M -WordMVP- <C.Meister-C[ at ]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: [Quoted Text] >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 :-)

Re: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Cindy M -WordMVP- <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 08.03.2006 16:46:55 Hi Steve, [Quoted Text] > 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

Re: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office "Jay" <nospam> 09.03.2006 10:56:37 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[ at ]hispeed.ch> wrote in message news:VA.0000bb55.00559916[ at ]speedy... Hi Steve, [Quoted Text] > 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