Deployment Issue - Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office

[Vikas]

Can anyone tell me if an office application developed using Visual
Studio Tools for Microsoft office be deployed on machine which does
not have Office 2003 installed?
Is Office 2003 a prerequisite to run such applciations on a machine
having version of office other than Office 2003?

Thanks,

[Saurabh Nandu [MVP]]

Hi,

MS has provided different PIA's for different versions of Office. SO there
is a version of Office XP and another for Office 2003.

Unless there is Office 2003 installed you will NOT be able to execute any
code. The reason for this is that Visual Studio Tools for Office is
essentially just a bunch of wrappers over the COM libraries exposed by
Office.

If Office is not installed the COM objects do not exist and your application
will fail to run.