Questions about Visual Studio Tools for Office.

[JDeats]

I have VS.NET 2005 & 2008 and I have a requirement to build Office
plug-ins compatible with both Office 2003 and 2007 (preferably
sticking with a single code base). I would like to build a proof of
concept add-in for PowerPoint using C# that displays a a dialog box
when the user presses Alt-J on the keyboard.

I need to make it so that this feature can not be disabled by the user
and the feature needs to work inside the PowerPoint 2007 viewer.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

 

[andy.johnstone]

I have VS.NET 2005 & 2008 and I have a requirement to build Office
plug-ins compatible with both Office 2003 and 2007 (preferably
sticking with a single code base). I would like to build a proof of
concept add-in for PowerPoint using C# that displays a a dialog box
when the user presses Alt-J on the keyboard.

I need to make it so that this feature can not be disabled by the user
and the feature needs to work inside the PowerPoint 2007 viewer.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

You can target both; just build for Office 2003, and it should just
work with 2007. As for the add-in working in Project 2007 Viewer... I
doubt that. I don't think the Viewer applications can load add-ins.
Also, because of security reasons, I doubt you'll be able to prevent
users from disabling your add-in.