No new word on this.
Everyone's screaming about it. We (the Outlook MVP's) have discussed it with
the Outlook team, but they have no control over when the PIA's will be
released.
What I do in the meantime is to check for the existence of the PIA's in the
GAC using the ComponentID : {1D844339-3DAE-413E-BC13-62D6A52816B2}
If it's there I proceed with installation, if not there I fail the installer
with a message to install the PIA's from the Office installer.
I don't know if MS is delaying this as a low priority because with Framework
4 you can embed the PIA in your addin compilation or not. MS always wants
everyone to update to the latest version and if that's all you're supporting
you can embed the PIA and be done with it. However, in the world I live in I
still have to support at minimum Outlook 2003 and up, so that is not a
solution for me. I also refuse to have to maintain multiple projects, as MS
recommends with solutions such as VSTO.
All we can do is wait, aside from the sort of thing I've done with my
installers to check for the PIA's.
Hi Ken,
Sorry to bother you again. Any News?
It's September already and no PIA 2010. Have you heard anything
further on when it will be available?
We have customers screaming to get their custom Outlook add-ins ported
to 2010. Several large customers have delayed their migration to 2010
just because we cannot provide them with a 2010 version of their
Outlook add-ins.
Is there anyone at Microsoft I can talk to about this?
Thanks,
Ronnie
Ronnie Mansoor
CTO, Implicit Inc.
