Microsoft Office Automation - Deployment

[MickT]

I have created a VB.NET application. A number of reports may generated from a form, and 2 of them use office automation to create reports in WORD templates.

The reports work well, but I have 2 querie about deployment on target machines.

1. I can't find a way for the application to check for the installation of WORD on the target machine, so that the report can exit cleanly if it is not installed.

2. Do I have to install WORD PIA's on the target machine? If so, how do I establish which version of the PIA's to install? How is the installation carried out?

I have searched Microsoft site, and others, but have not been able to find a solution to these queries.

[aryanbs]

Installed or not??

Registry or this link?

http://vb.mvps.org/articles/qa200206.asp

Sorry it uses late binding

Second Question

Primary Interop Assembly not needed, but what you need to make sure is client has installed Microsoft Word, thats all

I think :)

[MickT]

Many thanks for your help.