Will your VSTO addin run on Office 2010 64-bit? Yes, probably. (Christin Boyd)

The Visual Studio team is designing the runtime components for Office 2010 so that your Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 .NET addins, document solutions and spreadsheet solutions will run on 64-bit Office 2010.  These runtime components will ship with Office 2010, so your end-users won’t even have to download a new runtime!  How easy is that?  There are a few rare exceptions that I’ll discuss in this blog entry.  The miracle of managed code allows you to write C# or Visual Basic .NET code that compiles to “Any CPU” using the Compile setting in your Visual Studio project.  Your code compiles to MSIL with Visual Studio, and then at runtime it gets JIT compiled to the correct chip set, either AMD, Intel, 32-bit or 64-bit.  The first exception to this wondrous technology is the oldest versions of .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 will not enable this 64-bit transformation. The other thing to lookout for is calls to process invoke (p/invoke) in your code

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Will your VSTO addin run on Office 2010 64-bit? Yes, probably. (Christin Boyd)

32bit Visual Studio and 64bit Office (Christin Boyd)

Visual Studio 2010 will ship with a 32bit version, and no 64bit version.  My team built a very smart layer into Visual Studio 2010 to enable designers and debuggers that work with 64bit Office 2010 and 64bit SharePoint Server 2010.  For a good explanation of why the Visual Studio team chose to only build a 32bit version for the next release, you can find a blog post by Rico Mariani titled “ Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet) ” SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.  You can learn more about the requirements of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on the SharePoint Team Blog entry “ Announcing SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements ”  If you plan to build solutions for the next generation of SharePoint Server, then I recommend budgeting to purchase 64bit hardware.

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Microsoft wants Office 14 to get along – Cnet article

There is an interesting article on about Office 14 on Cnet. It doesn’t have anything specific about Access but there is a good interview with Antoine Leblond, who leads the Office client engineering efforts.

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