Comments on: Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 and Add-in Express 2010

By: Ryan Farley

Ryan Farley — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:01:10 +0000

Excellent stuff. Really looking forward to ADX 2010.

By: Eugene Starostin

Eugene Starostin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:32:53 +0000

Aaron,

I cannot give you a 100% guarantee for VSTO. In addition to VS 2010 and Office 2010 problems, there are some critical issues in VSTO itself. So, we are waiting for Office and VSTO RTMs to see what we can finally get of it. This is the reason why the stand-alone .net and vcl editions will be released earlier.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:08:47 +0000

Eugene,

You mention above that the “The VSTO edition will be published much later”. The Roadmap says this will be in April. Can you please confirm that this WILL be the case, as this is what we use for our Products.

Thanks,

Aaron.

By: Eugene Starostin

Eugene Starostin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:31:14 +0000

John,

No, you can install only one Office version. By MS design. So, Add-in Express will install your add-in for installed Office :)

BTW. On TechNet there is an interesting post about Office 2010 x64 – http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/02/23/understanding-64-bit-office.aspx

By: John West

John West — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:41:47 +0000

Will Office 2010 allow you to instal Excel x32 and Excel x64 side-by-side? If so, will ADX install both versions of the addin?

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:08:02 +0000

Eugene,

I hope things are well with just like it is with me :)

That looks like an excellent solution to me so I’m really looking forward to use the next version.

Kind regards,
Dennis

By: Eugene Starostin

Eugene Starostin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:19:56 +0000

Hello Dennis,

Glad to hear from you :-)

We gave a dry run to development and deployment on our Add-in Express for IE (there are also two versions of IE, 32- and 64-bit) – one project and one setup project. The latter includes two loaders (32-bit and 64-bit) and installs / registers your add-in automatically depending on installed Office. As for the add-in project, it is compiled for any CPU. So, the only thing you need to do is to write bit-neutral code if you use WinAPI tricks or the like (the core of Add-in Express is redesigned bit-neutral).

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:43:46 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for an interesting article about the next versions. What I highly appreach is the compatibility between versions as it save a significant number of hours.

Because we will face a scenario where both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Excel will be used within corporates it rase a question how Add-in Express .NET/VSTO will handle projects; will we be able to develop solutions in one project for both versions as well having to setups projects in one? The alternative is to work with two solutions side-by-side which is always a less good situation.

Any clients that will rush into 64-bit may put them in a less good position. For instance interacting with MDBs (i.e. “Access” databasaes) on a 64-bit platform will require a 64-bit driver. At present it’s not available. My point is that it will be better for us all if we all move slowly to the 64-bit.

Yes, I agree that corporates may move to Office 2010 from the 2003 versions. All inidications among my clients point to that direction as it fit in to their LCC-models. The same can probably be said about moving from XP to Windows 7.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Kind regards,
Dennis gards,
Dennis