Building Interop for multiple office versions   

Hi,

I have developed some code for outlook integration in an external app. All 
works fine, I folllowed these guidelines to build my own namespaced interop 
against Office 97 (Word and Outlook)

http://www.devcity.net/Articles/163/1/article.aspx

this is because we have a development environment that has differing 
versions of office on machines and we want to be as backward compatible as 
possible.

This generally works in my tests (97, 2000, XP and 2003)

So my question:

Is this liekly to be compatible with 2007? or do I have to build against an 
interop generated from 2000 to include 2007 compatibility ?



Many thanks


Chris

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:34:02 -0800   author:   Chris Miller

Re: Building Interop for multiple office versions   

I don't think anyone anywhere has tested that scenario, building against the 
Outlook 97 object model and trying to run on Outlook 2007. I certainly 
wouldn't want to try to use the Outlook 97 object model if at all possible, 
it's so limited compared to what came later that it would have to be 
classified as totally crippled.

You'd have to do your own testing, I don't even know anyone who still has 
Outlook 97 installed.

-- 
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Chris Miller"  wrote in message 
news:320035B3-10BB-4130-9F20-D31101EDB8FC@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have developed some code for outlook integration in an external app. All
> works fine, I folllowed these guidelines to build my own namespaced 
> interop
> against Office 97 (Word and Outlook)
>
> http://www.devcity.net/Articles/163/1/article.aspx
>
> this is because we have a development environment that has differing
> versions of office on machines and we want to be as backward compatible as
> possible.
>
> This generally works in my tests (97, 2000, XP and 2003)
>
> So my question:
>
> Is this liekly to be compatible with 2007? or do I have to build against 
> an
> interop generated from 2000 to include 2007 compatibility ?
>
>
>
> Many thanks
>
>
> Chris

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:00:15 -0500   author:   Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]

Re: Building Interop for multiple office versions   

Thanks, I will report what I find. Unfortunately end users still have 97 
installed !!

date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:21:01 -0800   author:   Chris Miller