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Dot Disaster, Frameworks don’t work!

( .Net and MS and VSTA and C/C++ )

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 […]

A 1000 words on VSTA

( MS and VSTA )

If you don’t know what Visual Studio Tools for Applications is then you need to read this. If you do, I hope this might provide some more insight.
At the recent UK Office User Group meeting the topic of VSTA came up and the only real thing that came out of the ensuing discussion was that […]