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Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) version confusion

Can someone enlight me about the version bindings between VSTO and the targeted office version?

I am using VS2008 with VSTO 3.0 to build and deploy an addin for Outlook 2003. I am totally confused about what is required on the target machine:

VSTO 2005 SE runtime or VSTO 3.0 runtime?

.NET Framework 2.0 or 3.5

Primary Interop Assemblies from Office 2003 (I guess)

In the end I need to tell the IT department of the customer how to deploy the addin using their own script based deloyment system. They do not want to have an MSI package.

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You would need the VSTO 3.0 runtime for Office 2007 and the VSTO 2005 SE for Office 2003.

Wikipedia has a good table of what links with what.

JDunkerley  2009-09-23 10:43:10
Thanks for the wikipedia link, I must have missed this until now. But this states, that my environment is built against the 2005 SE runtime - will both work?
Marc Wittke  2009-09-23 10:48:09
you are correct, misremembered how it worked. Have corrected. For 03 you need to use the VSTO 05 SE runtime.
JDunkerley  2009-09-23 11:03:37
then, .net 2.0 should be sufficient, I guess. Let's give it a try...
Marc Wittke  2009-09-24 08:31:52
VSTO 2005 SE runtime worked, .net 2.0 is sufficient, but it requires to set the target framework in the addin project correctly.
Marc Wittke  2009-09-24 12:17:23

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