Is communications between an add-in and Smart Tags possible?

[greg]

I'm fairly new to Office programming; I've easily been able to develop both
Smart Tags and add-ins for use in Word 2007 using VS2008 but I want to have
the add-in be able to control the recognition process of the Smart Tag
recognizer. I can't see any way to have my add-in communicate with my Smart
Tag recognizer process. Is this feasible? Alternatively, it's not obvious to
me that I can implement the Smart Tag process in the add-in (not using VSTO,
since I know that doesn't support application-level Smart Tags yet, but
manually using Smart Tag interfaces).

Thanks

Greg

 

[Andrei Smolin [Add-in Express]]

Hello Greg,

You need to develop the COM add-in and the Smart Tag in the same assembly
(Add-in Express allows adding a COM Add-in module to your Smart Tag
project). Then you can define a static variable that holds the current
instance of the add-in and use this variable in the code of the Smart Tag to
control the recognition process. HTH.

Regards from Belarus (GMT+2),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
www.add-in-express.com