XLA for VSTO

Any feeling as to why this is? Was it too hard? Is it coming later perhaps?

Thanks,

Aaron.

AaronRobertson-Hodder at 2007-9-8 >

I didn't mean to sound ungrateful, just been spending a lot of time trying to come to grips with the latest version!

We have a product that we have invested a lot of time in over the past couple of years, and I would like to see it move to VSTO and .Net. The main reason being the ability to make it appear as part of the Office suite by using the Actions Pane. Our problem is that the app is not document centric, but designed to be used across many documents, ie. global.

The fact that we can now use standard forms controls to develop the UI is fantastic (much better than the 2003 version!).

For now, I have come up with a work around, to enable to Action Pane for all document that are 'touched' by the app, which is to add the schema and solution to the document as soon as the user initiates use of the app (ie. from a button). I have been told that the ability to set the custom document properties that make this happen from VBA will be in the final version. I have also been told that this will require me to close and re-open the document! This is a problem, because the user hasn't even decided to save it by then, meaning I end up with a saved document that might just be thrown away.

So, I guess I have two requests:

- Let us have global solutions that utilize the Action Pane
- Let us set the schema and solutions details via properties and have them take effect immediately

OR

Just let us have complete control over the Actions Pane from a global assembly!

We promise to use it only for good! ;-)

Thanks.

Aaron.

AaronRobertson-Hodder at 2007-9-8 >