PIA registration issues

posted by  mneon (8)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I read you webblog about the Office 2003 PIA installed in the GAC. I have found several issues that make this solution extremely problemmatic for developers.

First, I currently compile my Visio 2002 addin on a box that does not have visio on it. I can do this beacuse I reference the Office XP PIA's directly. I have ported my Addin to Visio 2003 and found that I can't install the Visio 2003 PIA without installed visio 2003 on my build box. So no I am forced to install another copy of visio 2003 on my build box so the PIA will show up in G