office-2010

Office 2003 interop with only Office 2010 installed

We have an application (.NET 2.0) that uses Outlook 2003 features (Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library). My new computer has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed, and the references don't work anymore (there's only Office 14 Object Library available). Is there any way to use Office 2003 dlls when Office 2010 is installed (I've heard th...

Which problems can be there in using win32 applications that handle office 2010 64 bit files?

I am testing one application that handles files (stored in sql server using filestream). It is a Delphi win32 application. Opening a xls document stored in the db (originally saved with Office 2003) gives an error from Excel 2010 64bit. Is there some known compatibility issues with Office 2010 64bit with win32 applications? i am tryi...

XML Schema for customizing Office 2010 Ribbon

Hi, I've seen plenty of examples around the internet on how to add a button or group etc. to the Ribbon, but no reference to an XML Schema document that will explain exactly what all my options are for writing the XML for my own custom ribbon tabs and groups. Does anyone have a link for this? Cheers, Dave --Trindaz on Fedang #office-20...

Add controls to existing ribbon group in Office (VSTO)

I find numerous examples on how to add a new group to an existing ribbon, and this works just fine. What I cannot figure out is how I can add new controls to an existing group on an existing ribbon. Say I want to add my own command to the "Proofing" group on the "Review" tab. I'm developing this in VS2010 for Office2010, but I guess th...

Word 2010 addin does not load, vsto 2010

Our development machine is 64 bit hardware running Windows 7 Professional N (64 bit), 64 bit Office Professional 2010 and Visual Studio Professional 2010. We created a Word 2010 (Application Level Addin) using .net framework 4 , Ribbons and windows installer targeting Office 2010 using this link. We followed everything to the dot sever...

How to get original sender of a forwarded email with Outlook interop?

I'm developing an add in for Outlook 2010 and I need to be able to retrieve the sender's email address for a MailItem or the email address of the original sender if it is a a forwarded email. Is there any easy way to do that second one besides parsing through the body of the email? ...

XmlSerializers.dll did not succeed

Name: AIT.OurPluginOffice.Office2010.ExcelAddIn From: file:///C:/Program Files/OurPlugin/OurPlugin Office 2010/AIT.OurPluginOffice.Office2010.ExcelAddIn.vsto ************** Exception Text ************** System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException: Downloading file:///C:/Program Files/OurPlugin/OurPlugin Office 2...

Validating/ed events not firing in class library windows form

I'm developing a Word 2010 add in using Visual Studio 2010, and C#. I've created a simple form, with two textboxes, and an Ok button. The Ok button's Causes validation property is set to true. Both textboxes CausesValidation property is set to false, and their Validating and Validated properties are set. This is so that they are only v...

Word 2010 VSTO development

I'm trying to create a Word 2010/2007 VSTO add-in and have run into a couple of questions: If I use the Backstage View and other 2010 features in the Ribbon, how will Word 2007 handle them? (i.e. do I need to do some kind of conditional checking for version? If so, how?) The whole Primary Interop thing. Does setting a reference to Word...

Office 2010 server side automation in a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Environment

I am aware of of the infamous Considerations for server-side Automation of Office from Microsoft and it clearly lists products from the 2010 suite. However, today I was made to believe by an IT ops techie that Office 2010 does not suffer from the issues mentioned in that article and can be used without issues within a server environment...

Best way to access Office 2010 APIs

We are currently investigating options for migrating a legacy application built using .NET 1.1 to .NET 4. Office 2003 was used in the application and we need to migrate away to Office 2010. The old application used CDO/MAPI to interact with Excel/Outlook... so what is the prescribed p&p for accessing Excel/Outlook 2010 from .NET 4? ...

Word automation does only work for administrator, or with a delay after creating word.application

We have a program made in Borland Delphi that uses Word automation to create documents. On an installation (terminal server) we are only able to get the Word automation to work when running as local administrator. When runnnig as anoter user we get an error message "Opdracht mislukt -2146824090" (its dutch version of Office), wich I gues...