Upgrading Outlook 2007 VSTO AddIn to Outlook 2010

Question

We have a very simple addin that is basically a custom Outlook Ribbon which is very similar to existing Communicate Call w/in a Outlook 2007 contact form. The only differance is that we call our external .NET application and passes a few parameters such as the phone number and contact name.

I would like to knowwhat we will need to do to make our addin compatible with Outlook 2010.

Thanks,

Steve

Answer 1

You should be fine, unless you are also building custom commandbars for the Explorer object.

See:

Office Client Developer Content and Resources : Preparing your Existing Solutions to Run on Outlook 2010:
http://blogs.msdn.com/officedevdocs/archive/2009/12/11/preparing-your-existing-solutions-to-run-on-outlook-2010.aspx

You'd need to use Visual Studio 2010 though if you want your add-in to work with 64-bit Outlook 2010.

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Eric Legault: MVP (Outlook), MCTS (SharePoint) -- Owner, Collaborative Innovations (http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca)

Answer 2

Worth mentioning that I've run AddIns that were build in VS2008 on 64-bit Office. Though not Outlook specifically.