topic Re: MS Office 2000 add-in in Alfresco Archive

MS Office 2000 add-in

naeuaa — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:04:27 GMT

We would like to integrate Alfresco with a desktop environment running MSOffice 2000. We have had a look to the new Office 2003 Plugin Alfresco provides. Would be possible to have it for the MSOffice 2000?

Re: MS Office 2000 add-in

mikeh — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:28:48 GMT

Hi,

Unfortunately the short answer is "no".

The Office Add-Ins are built on Microsoft's Visual Studio Tools for Office code, which allow developers to create managed code add-ins for Office 2003 and 2007. The interface into the Office 2000 and XP suite is via COM, which would require a rewrite. Also, Office 2000 is getting pretty old now and, I believe, is unsupported even by Microsoft.

On a more positive note, the web scripts which provide the add-in user interface can be reused should someone take it upon themselves to do the C++/ATL interface work required.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: MS Office 2000 add-in

naeuaa — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:48:42 GMT

Thank you very much for the quick answer.
We'll see if we can afford this part…