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Version neutral?
Why do I have PIA Components which are NOT version neutral 
Patrick Jox


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Hi,
I am developing a solution for a client that requires to be runnable to all office versions from XP (2002) or above.
Therefore I started with a new project, selecting ADX-Loader and Use version-neutral interop assemblies. Anyway I can find Office PIA components in the references section. Why? Further I have a reference to VSTO\PIA\Office11\Extensibility.dll. So this can't be version-neutral.

What is wrong or what do I not correctly understand.

Kind regards
Patrick
Posted 10 May, 2009 11:48:09 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Patrick,

When you choose Use version-neutral interop assemblies, Add-in Express copies version-neutral interops from the install folder to the OfficePIAs folder of your project and adds those interops to your project references.

Extensibility.dll doesn't depend on Office version.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 11 May, 2009 05:57:02 Top
Patrick Jox


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Hei Andrei,
but in VS I can use NewMailEx-Event which is available only from version 2003.

So if I do not care I will loose compatibility.

Regards
Patrick
Posted 11 May, 2009 14:15:47 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Patrick,

The Outlook Events component provides all events available in Outlook 2007. Sure, you can handle NewMailEx in your add-in that supports Outlook 2000-2003. Still NewMailEx exists in Outlook 2003-2007 only and the corresponding event handler will not be invoked in Outlook 2000-2002.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 11 May, 2009 14:33:52 Top