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visual studio 2008

just last week our company already had the licensed copy of visual studio 2008, thats what you get being a MS gold partner. we have to use it right away to migrate some projects that we developed using the beta 2 release . the look and feel did npt change a bit but i bet there are a lot of changes that are waiting to be discovered.

one of the most notable changes was on VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). VSTO has been around since VS2005 and we had no problem migrating it to beta 2 of VS2008. well things have changed and there are new features in 2008 plus changes in assembly names. so here are the things that we got and the workarounds that we made :




The following assemblies are no longer supported in VS 2008 Release. Remove it from the reference list.
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.AddInBase.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Common.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Common.dll

Replace above with the following assemblies
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Runtime.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.Office.Tools.v9.0.dll
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v9.0.dll

In Ribbons ExcelRibbon, WordRibbon, etc.. is replaced by one object which is OfficeRibbon. In your ribbon class you need to change the base class from XXXXRibbon to OfficeRibbon (see snippet below). Then open the ribbon and change the RibbonType property to any office solutions you wish your ribbon to support …

SNIPPET

Old:
public partial class MyRibbon : WordRibbon
{
…..
}

New:

public partial class MyRibbon : OfficeRibbon
{
….
}




feel free to comment on this and add new changes that you may have run into.
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