VSOfficeDeveloper: Known Problems, Bugs, and Fixes
A listing of known problems, bugs, and pending fixes associated with Office Core Products specific to Visual Studio (VB, C#, C++) Development.
Problems with System.OutOfMemoryException At System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder in 32-Bit Managed Solutions
If you are working with a VSTO or managed code solution for Office, you may encounter a...
Date: 10/10/2008
Problems with System.OutOfMemoryException At System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder in 32-Bit Managed Solutions
Symptom Managed code solutions that use classes from the System.Data or System.Xml name may...
Date: 10/10/2008
OLE Link to Word 97-2003 File May Fail with OLE_E_CLASSDIFF Error on Open
You may encounter an OLE_E_CLASSDIFF (0x80040008) error on calls to OleRun or IOleObject::DoVerb...
Date: 10/08/2008
OLE Link to Word 97-2003 File May Fail with OLE_E_CLASSDIFF Error on Open
Symptoms You may encounter an OLE_E_CLASSDIFF (0x80040008) error on calls to OleRun or...
Date: 10/08/2008
Unable to Open Office Documents for Edit From SharePoint Behind Cisco CSS Load Balancer
If you use a Cisco CSS switch for load balancing or content caching to a SharePoint Server farm, you...
Date: 10/03/2008
Excel 2007 XLL SDK Unicode String Support Update
The Microsoft Excel 2007 XLL SDK introduced a new data structure, the XLOPER12, which allows your...
Date: 09/10/2008
Problems with SharePoint DateTime Columns in Office 2007 Documents Edited by Office 2003
A problem was recently discovered with the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack file converters when used...
Date: 05/29/2008
SharePoint Document Library Date Time Columns May Be Incorrectly Changed for Office 2007 Documents if Opened and Saved by Office XP/2003
Symptoms If you create a document library in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) with a custom...
Date: 05/29/2008
Field’s promoted from an InfoPath form template during publishing to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are created multiple times
When publishing an InfoPath Form Template (XSN file) to multiple servers (i.e. a development server...
Date: 05/19/2008
Field’s promoted from an InfoPath form template during publishing to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are created multiple times
Summary When publishing an InfoPath Form Template (XSN file) to multiple servers (i.e. a development...
Date: 05/19/2008
Office 2007 File Format MIME Types for HTTP Content Streaming
The following post offers documentation on the Office 2007 MIME Types that can be used for HTTP...
Date: 05/08/2008
Office 2007 File Format MIME Types for HTTP Content Streaming
Summary Office 2007 introduced new file formats for common document types (Word documents, Excel...
Date: 05/08/2008
Visio cannot Open read-only documents from a Document Management System
The following error occurs when opening a read-only Visio Drawing from an ODMA Document Management...
Date: 05/07/2008
Visio cannot Open read-only documents from a Document Management System
Summary The following error occurs when opening a read-only Visio Drawing from an ODMA Document...
Date: 05/07/2008
OCX Controls Used in VBA-Enabled Applications Cannot be Side-By-Side (SxS) Registered
ActiveX Controls used in Office applications with VBA must have at least their type library...
Date: 04/21/2008
OCX Controls Used in VBA-Enabled Applications Cannot be Side-By-Side (SxS) Registered
Summary ActiveX Controls used in core Office Applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or...
Date: 04/21/2008
ShellExecute fails when called from Internet Explorer Protected Mode
When calling ShellExecute to open an Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will fail with...
Date: 04/16/2008
ShellExecute fails when called from Internet Explorer Protected Mode
Summary When calling ShellExecute to open of Office document from Internet Explorer, the call will...
Date: 04/16/2008
OLE/ActiveX Objects Copied from Office in Remote TS Session are Unavailable on Local Client Via RDP Clipboard
When attempting to copy and paste OLE or OCX objects from Office applications running on a remote...
Date: 04/14/2008
OLE/ActiveX Objects Copied from Office in Remote TS Session are Unavailable on Local Client Via RDP Clipboard
Problem When you attempt to copy an OLE object or ActiveX Control (OCX) from an Office application...
Date: 04/14/2008
Excel OLE Embedding Errors if you have Managed Add-In Sinking Application Events in Excel
Managed addins/components that sink events on the Application object may cause problems with OLE...
Date: 04/11/2008
Excel OLE Embedding Errors if you have Managed Add-In Sinking Application Events in Excel
Summary If you build a managed component that loads into Excel's process space, and the managed code...
Date: 04/11/2008
Excel 2007 does not return shape data using XLL xlfGetDocument command
XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command to obtain shape data may fail in Excel 2007 because a...
Date: 04/09/2008
Excel 2007 does not return shape data using XLL xlfGetDocument command
Summary Microsoft Excel XLL add-ins using the xlfGetDocument command with the command type 42 to...
Date: 04/09/2008
Changes in OCX Save Behavior for Office 2007 Documents
Office 2007 introduces a new save behavior for ActiveX Controls (OCX) saved directly in Word, Excel,...
Date: 04/04/2008
Changes in OCX Save Behavior for Office 2007 Documents
Summary As part of the change for default file formats in Microsoft Office 2007, ActiveX Controls...
Date: 04/04/2008
Description of the Microsoft Office Existence Discovery Protocol
Microsoft Office 2007 applications can make an HTTP HEAD request to the URL location where a...
Date: 03/11/2008
Description of the Microsoft Office Existence Discovery Protocol
Summary When opening documents from a URL location in Microsoft Office 2007, the Office library can...
Date: 03/11/2008
Excel 2007 Extension Warning On Opening Excel Workbook from a Web Site
Web sites that use an Excel 97-2003 MIME type to open conent streamed from the web server may find...
Date: 03/11/2008
Excel 2007 Extension Warning On Opening Excel Workbook from a Web Site
Summary Web sites that use the "application/x-msexcel" or "application/vnd.ms-excel" MIME type to...
Date: 03/11/2008
Editing InfoPath forms attached to Outlook emails
Users often send documents to each other as Outlook attachments. Depending on how the attachments...
Date: 02/25/2008
Editing InfoPath forms attached to Outlook emails
Emailing forms and documents from one user to another is a common way of performing workflows in...
Date: 02/25/2008
Availability of Office File Format Documentation
Developers working with Microsoft Office files can now freely download he specifications for both...
Date: 02/18/2008
Unable to load a .NET 2.0 Assembly from VBA in Word/Excel (2000, 2002, and 2003)
Managed code exported via COM Interop may not load correctly inside of Word or Excel VBA if the...
Date: 02/15/2008
OCX Persistent Strings May Be Altered When Saved in Office 2007 Open Office XML Format
ActiveX controls saved in Office 2007 using the IPersistPropertyBag interface may encounter...
Date: 02/15/2008
Unable to Update Metafile Presentation for OLE 1.0 Object in Word (2002/2003/2007)
When using OLE 1.0 objects in Word, you may experience problems in getting the presentation metafile...
Date: 02/15/2008
Unable to load a .NET 2.0 Assembly from VBA in Word/Excel (2000, 2002, and 2003)
Summary The Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework includes a lockback policy that intentionally prevents the...
Date: 02/15/2008
OCX Persistent Strings May Be Altered When Saved in Office 2007 Open Office XML Format
Summary An ActiveX control that implements IPersistPropertyBag for property persistence may...
Date: 02/15/2008
Unable to Update Metafile Presentation for OLE 1.0 Object in Word (2002/2003/2007)
Summary When you insert an OLE 1.0 Object into a new document using Word 2002 or Word 2003, the...
Date: 02/15/2008