The world of managed com addins is a mess. VSTO has not been received well and the story of unmanaged code (Excel) and managed code is of deployment and stability nightmares.
There are a quite a few things right from the off that cause problems for Office devs wanting to use .Net technology:
- .Net is inherently […]
The Excel Developers Kit has been out of print for almost a decade, sadly there has been no update, but you can find a e-copy here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/office97/html/edkfrnt.asp
Most of the stuff is out of date now and much of the C++ stuff just wont work - I understand that some of it didn’t work when it was […]