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Creating Word 2007 doc and template projects with VSTO SE

I am trying to complete the setup for a machine I am using for Word 2007 and VSTO SE development.

I did a complete reinstall of Visual Studio and VSTO after first removing VSTO CTP v3. (This is in leiu of re-imaging the machine, as the VSTO SE download details suggest might be necessary after running the CTP version).

All is well, except in order to complete the full/original VSTO installation, I had to temporarily put Word 2003 SP1 on the machine.

So I installed Word 2003 SP1 on my Word 2007 machine, then installed VSTO, then removed Word 2003, and finally installed VSTO SE.

VSTO SE runs fine and gives me the new Word 2007 Add-in options as expected. However, the other options for launching a new Word document and Word template are still trying to use Word 2003 (which I uninstalled, and which the VSTO SE download details state should not be on the machine as you should only have one version of Word).

How can I get VSTO SE to with Word 2007 document and template projects? (Are Add-ins the only supported project type for Word 2007 or do I have my configured incorrectly??)

kewpcg

You are right.
Addins are the only supported project type for Office 2007 in the VSTO 2005 SE system. For document level customizations in Office 2007 you will have to wait for the Orcas release. However any document level solutions built for Office 2003 will also work with Office 2007.

SaurabhB

Thank you for responding.

So if I understand correctly, any solutions that I am creating that involve template automation, and that will ultimately be used in Word 2007, need to be developed initially in VSTO with Word 2003 (at least until Orcas comes out).

I went through all the steps of putting Word 2003 on that machine in order to install the "base" version of VSTO, and discovered those features did not work with Word 2007 anyway, so for future reference do I really even need the "original" VSTO release - i.e., can I just install VSTO SE when running on a machine with Word 2007? (The download details for VSTO SE caution that I should not run Word 2003 side by side with Word 2007, so even if I did want to use the doc and template projects for Office that are installed by the base version, I would not be able to use them.)

I just want to be sure I understant this correctly because I have another Word 2007 development machine in progress.

Thanks!

kewpcg

"So if I understand correctly, any solutions that I am creating that involve template automation, and that will ultimately be used in Word 2007, need to be developed initially in VSTO with Word 2003 (at least until Orcas comes out)."

Yes. What I meant to say was all Word 2003 document level customizations will be compatible with Word 2007. So you could develop something for word 2003 and it will work with word 2007. However you won't be able to utilize any of the new features in word 2007 for doc level customizations at least until orcas comes out.

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SaurabhB

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