That’s excellent news!

Thanks!

We will publish our regions (ADXOlFormsManager) redesigned for Office 2010 in beta 1. In general, beta 1 will include complete functionality compatible with all Office 2010 features. Have a look at http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2010/03/05/visual-studio-2010-office2010/

That is all good news. I’m a bit unclear on where the bits we really need to test as soon as possible some into the schedule. We make use of AddinExpress.OL.ADXOlFormsManager and in particular ADXOlFormsCollectionItems to render some custom panes in Outlook for aour application. This is actually the only functionality that does not work fine right now in Outlook 2010. Where does that fit into the release schedule? Will it be available in the Beta 1 or Beta 2 or does that fall into “New Outlook regions designer” which is scheduled for the final release?

Thanks.

> Now that Microsoft has announced RTM in May will you be bringing forward the plans you currently have in place for 2010 releases?

Yes, of course.

> Also, will premium customers have access to early beta’s or code which can be used to verify current applications will run on 2010 as expected (obviously without support from you guys!)?

Yes, of course. Beta 1, beta 2 and builds at your request will be available for all our premium and professional subscribers.

Now that Microsoft has announced RTM in May will you be bringing forward the plans you currently have in place for 2010 releases? Also, will premium customers have access to early beta’s or code which can be used to verify current applications will run on 2010 as expected (obviously without support from you guys!)?

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx

Thanks,

Aaron.

yuck! OK, point taken. I see what you mean now. No compiler-internal support for IDispatch is bad news indeed.
I had repressed how much of the COM-plexities of OLE Delphi is hiding from us…

Renders Dmitry’s effort all the more herculean, I guess…

Have a look at this post (see the last post).

As I wrote, I have no first-hand experience with FreePascal/Lazarus at all so far so I don’t know how complete/compatible their RTL/VCL-replacement is. I keep hearing that they’re coming pretty close though and if it’s good enough for Dmitry to let him produce both 32bit (in Delphi) and 64bit (in FreePascal) versions of Redemption from a single code base (I very much doubt he started from scratch for the 64bit version) that must be pretty good already.

I was just asking whether you (or anyone else) had already tried or considered this.

We could definitely port our Add-in Express to FreePascal, but… hardly any of our customers would agree to automate Office in a low-level C-style. You do not suggest that we create FreePascal-wrappers over all Office apps, do you? :-)

Dmitry recently announced that there will soon be a 64bit-version of Redemption which he produces using FreePascal. I haven’t looked at Lazarus or FreePascal myself yet but do you think it would be possible to use that as a temp solution for producing 64bit ADX-based addins until Embarcadero get their stuff together? Surely not the designtime stuff but maybe the projects can at least be made to compile?