NetOffice v1.7.4.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-02-23 // about 6 years ago
  • General

    • Tutorials demonstrate most of the new core features (dynamics, cloning, etc)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Skip support for old .NET Runtime versions - minimum is .NET 4.0 (Client Profile)
      > We want to support .NET 4 (and any higher of course) as long as possible because it is the last Windows XP compatible runtime. > (NetOffice 1.7.3 with .NET 2.0/3.x support is still available in the download section)
    • Microsoft Publisher is now into play.
    • Add MSFormsApi.dll to support VBE UI controls
    • Total size of the assemblies is 25% smaller
    • ๐Ÿ‘€ Extended support for MS-Excel RTD Server (see COMAddin examples)
    • Extended support for Document Inspector in MS-Word (see COMAddin examples)
    • ๐Ÿ‘€ Extended support for custom MS Outlook property pages and Form Regions (see COMAddin examples)
    • [CustomUI] attribute can handle Ribbon IDs now
    • ๐Ÿ”’ Suppress MS Outlook Security dialog is now available in NetOffice.OutlookApi.Tools.Contribution.Security
    • Spend Contribution utils as optional service for common tasks
    • Developer Toolbox source is available on https://osdn.net/projects/netoffice or SVN: https://svn.osdn.net/svnroot/netoffice
    • Official mirror on GitHub is "netofficefw" - NOT "netoffice"

    ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking Changes

    • COMObject has been replaced by ICOMObject interface. You may have to change some event trigger code from COMObject to ICOMObject.
    • ๐Ÿšš Some native interop interfaces has been moved to *.Native namespace