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Office Development - 2003 or 2007 beta
"jo" <jcrews[ at ]aristotle.net> 07.06.2006 20:43:23
Currently our office is using several very customized and automated
Office XP Word templates to produce legislative bill drafts. We are
capturing several items of data in document variables and then sending
that info to a SQL server via ADO. (not currently using any XML).

We are trying to plan ahead and see how we need to "grow" our
applications in light of the rapidly changing Office System products.

Presently, I am in the process of creating new projects using VS2005
and VSTO to 'mimic' our current applications. I am attempting to
utilize XML schemas and basically re-think how we capture the data and
present it.

Since we are not going to implement any changes in our Office Software
until the fall of 2007, My question is - should I stop using Office
2003 to develop with and try to develop with the Office 2007 beta. I
certainly hate to build new applications that are going to be outdated
before they are ever released to our users.

Any comments or suggestions?

RE: Office Development - 2003 or 2007 beta
B[ at ]k$ 08.06.2006 17:08:01
Now it's difficult to write under Office 2007 because it is not reliable and
freaquantly crashs but in all ways it would be a great practice for you.



"jo" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Currently our office is using several very customized and automated
> Office XP Word templates to produce legislative bill drafts. We are
> capturing several items of data in document variables and then sending
> that info to a SQL server via ADO. (not currently using any XML).
>
> We are trying to plan ahead and see how we need to "grow" our
> applications in light of the rapidly changing Office System products.
>
> Presently, I am in the process of creating new projects using VS2005
> and VSTO to 'mimic' our current applications. I am attempting to
> utilize XML schemas and basically re-think how we capture the data and
> present it.
>
> Since we are not going to implement any changes in our Office Software
> until the fall of 2007, My question is - should I stop using Office
> 2003 to develop with and try to develop with the Office 2007 beta. I
> certainly hate to build new applications that are going to be outdated
> before they are ever released to our users.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
>

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