Mutiny in the Ranks at Microsoft

[zathras]

Btw, hows the Office 2007 beta looking - I can't be arsed to screw my laptop up installing it.

Mixed.

The reason I signed up to the Beta was to see how my own applications worked and also to see if you could use

VS2005
VSTO2003
Office2007

I also wanted to try and call my .Net assembly from VBA in Office 2007.

Current project written in Vb.Net/C# crashes Excel when you leave Excel, but in all other respects did work. Now all of a sudden no add-in seems to be working

I'm going to bit the bullet and re-install everything.

As this is my SKA ( (c) ATw ) I've decided to hold off on the Office 2007 version and develop against 2003. Partly because one of the USP's is that people will be familiar with it's use because it's built around Office. The interface in Office 2007 is sufficiently different to nullify that advantage. Also it means I only have to work on the engine which drives it. Not have to learn how to develop against a Beta version of Office.

[Spacecadet]

Take a look at this open source .NET application, written as a college senior project. 3 devs. 100,000 lines:

Paint.net

It works beautifully and it's got a nice 80-85% of Photoshop functionality.

Thats a really nice program - I installed it yesterday and was able to get some damn good results very quickly