Comments on: A bit about Microsoft Office PIA

By: Andrei Smolin

Andrei Smolin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:38:41 +0000

Office applications are almost 100% backward compatible. If a VB6 standalone appliction project is compiled against a certain Office version, then it will work with all newer Office versions.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:00:38 +0000

Hi.
I got a question. I got a couple of old VB6 (very old i know) apps that uses office 2003/xp object libs, what would happend with the apps when we move all park to office 2007? would i need to recompile all apps with new 2007 object libs (if ther is one)? or will it still work even with the oll references to 2003/xp object libs? Can i have office 2003 and 2007 on the same machine, would that work and make the apps still work?

We are currently using office 2003 on all machines, and since the code is very very old they do not use PIAs (and is a VB6 app).

Thanks

By: Andrei Smolin

Andrei Smolin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:24:41 +0000

See how Microsoft recommend deploying PIAs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163987(office.10).aspx.

By: raghav

raghav — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:28:06 +0000

I want to install 0ffice 2003 PIA using BootStrapper.
I had a problem that,

Iam using the following link in Product.xml. “http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/3/a/83a40b5a-5050-4940-bcc4-7943e1e59590/O2003PIA.EXE”
So it not downloading “o2003pia.msi” from the above url and throwing the following error.

Error:
Setup has detected that the file ‘C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSDB7.tmp\O2003PIA\O2003PIA.msi’ has either changed since it was initially published or may be corrupt.

Please suggest me in finding the solution for this problem