Outlook 2013 add-in with VS 2010

Question

Sorry for asking such a stupid question, but i googled for about two hours and couldn't find an answer to my question:

How can i develop an Outlook 2013 add-in?

I have an add-in which was created in C# 2010 and for Outlook 2010. Now i would like to extend it in that way, that in Outlook 2013 are the two explorer events InlineResponse and InlineResponseClose.

I searched for a never version of the VSTO and PIA, but every website told me that these are for VS 2012 only?

Can someone of you explain me what i need to extend this add-in or show me a link where this is described? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but i'm a bit stressed out after that.

Answer 1

The project is a classic Office add in dll and not one of the new 'apps' Microsoft introduced in this Office version. And you are right, as i want to keep it as a dll.

Now i solved my problem this way, that i use some unmanaged Code with interfaces and so on (Oleviewer helped a lot) to get the InlineResponse event.

Thanks for your answers here.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, you cannot. Office 2013 is an 'app' based platform similar to the "Microsoft Marketplace' and will use JavaScript as the main communicative tool between different office applications. As a result, the basic project stack that now gets created with VS2012 for Office 2013 deployment is

• App1.html – Sample webpage
• App1.xml – Manifest file
• App1.js – Script file
• App1.css – Cascading Style Sheet
• Office.js – Office class library file

2010 will interpret this as a website.

Answer 3

outlook 2010 add-in works with 2010 only. if you want to make this add-in compatible with all versions like 2007, 2010 and 2013. One way is to open that add-in VS2013 and compile it. You get few compilation error as this was developed with 2010. Fix those errors..thats it :). you will get what you want