COM Shim Wizard for IDTExtensibility (Shared Addins) Now Available for Visual Studio 2005

I've blogged before about the need for shimming non-VSTO shared managed add-ins. Misha Shneerson and Andrew Whitechapel created a COM Shim Wizard that worked with Visual Studio 2003. They've now updated the wizard and it is available on MSDN. 

Article URL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/Office2003ShimWizard2.asp

Download: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=300A6CDB-84DD-4C62-B3BD-E79194D83494&displaylang=en

You should use this shim wizard if you are building shared IDTExtensibility2 based add-ins for Office. A shim gives you appdomain isolation and some other goodness.

If you are developing add-ins for Outlook 2003, VSTO 2005 provides a better add-in project that you should use instead of Shared Add-ins.

If you are developing add-ins for Office 2007, the VSTO v3 CTP has add-in support for all the Office applications and so you won't need this COM Shim Wizard: https://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/future

Want to work on the VSTO team?

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2006
  Eric,
  
  Excellent news - Send my best regards to Misha and Andrew!
  
  Kind regards,
  Dennis