MS Office XP Development Environment?

[Henry Smith]

I create business application software using the MS Office 2000 Premium
Edition development environment (VBA) and Visual Basic (VB) Version 6
Enterprise. My requirements are to develop business application solutions
using the MS Office suite of applications. Primarily, I am concerned about
the integration of MS Office Word, Excel, Power Point and Access DB. My
clients are preparing to upgrade there systems from Office 2000 to Office
XP. I understand there might be some backwards compatibility issues, but I
think I can overcome them when I upgrade my environment and then upgrade my
applications to OFFICE XP.
My primary question.
If I purchase MS Office XP Professional Edition will this edition provide me
with the Office XP (Office 2002) development environment?

Looking forward to your reply.

Cheers,
Henry

 

[Patrick Rouse [MVP]]

A developer of MS Office Integration Products should work
with Office Developer Edition if you want to be able to
package applications, i.e. create exe.

There's a lot you can do with the built in VBA, but
developer edition gives you a lot more, i.e. create &
distribute run-time Microsoft Access Applications.

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

 

[Henry Smith]

OK! That being said. How do I go about purchasing the developers edition?
Microsoft says they no longer have Office XP available for purchase. Seems
they have run on ahead of the general populace that is using XP and 2000.
Most corporate users don't advance as fast as the software produced by MS.
In fact the Government (Federal) is very slow about taking up the latest
releases. My clients are just now beginning to think about moving up to XP
let alone 2003. Where do I go from here?

Looking forward to your reply.

Cheers,
Henry

 

[John Sitka]

After years of chasing around, versions, CD's, installs, etc I would really
recommend looking at a MSDN Universal licence. I'm saddled with old
apps too but still want to keep myself "small corporate current."
It seems pricy at first but that is far outwieghed buy having a full
toolbox.
MS takes good care of their developers, like you.