Do any body have an idea about plugins?

[pranesh1977]

Hi, I am new to .net and my company wants me to develop a plugin in .net (framework 2.0) for MS Office 2003 or higher. Does any body knows how to create a plugin and how to deploy into MS Office using installer so that when ever MS Office (word, excel or ppt) opens then it will added automatically. Thanks

[alpa shah]

I think to implement this application you have a basic knowledge of OLE and COM component.

alpa shah

[pranesh1977]

Thanks, Does it mean that .net is not providing this?

[Tal Kain]

There is also a version of Visual Studio (I think Professional/Team Developer) that supplies a specific type of project for all the Microsoft Office products (developing for Outlook/Word/Excel/etc...) it depends on the version of your Visual Studio 2005..

[archana jain]

hey Go to office projects in Project type and select the type of Plugin.... Serach in google also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa168292(v=office.11).aspx http://www.lytebyte.com/2009/01/08/how-to-add-and-remove-excel-add-in-or-plugins/ http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6922 ============== http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386097.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386089.aspx#AddTabToRibbon http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386089.aspx#AddControlsToGroups http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386104.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386089.aspx#HandleEventsSetProperties l http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd935909.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd935909.aspx