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JFerro
JFerro

Reputation: 3433

where to start with Add-in in Visual Studio when installed in Mac

Dear VBA/VSTO programmers.

I started some months ago programming VBA in excel and now I want to jump into add-ins programmed in visual-studio.

I have three questions. a) I installed visual studio in my mac, and following this instructions: Creating the Project To create a new Excel VSTO Add-in project in Visual Studio

  1. Start Visual Studio. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project. In the templates pane, expand Visual C# or Visual Basic, and then expand Office/SharePoint. Under the expanded Office/SharePoint node, select the Office Add-ins node. In the list of project templates, select Excel 2010 Add-in or Excel 2013 Add-in. In the Name box, type FirstExcelAddIn. Click OK.

but visual studio for mac does not give me the option of "project". how is that possible.

Do I have to go away from mac to program in viSUAL STUDIO ADD-INS FOR EXCEL?

Assuming I have a Mac Pro and I have a normal windows machine at work, but no excel in Mac Pro, can I do something of my programming in my mac pro at home for my excel at work? (I don't work as a programmer, just programming since a few months VBA).

thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 434

Answers (1)

Eugene Astafiev
Eugene Astafiev

Reputation: 49395

VSTO add-ins can't be run on MAC. You need to develop COM based Office add-ins on Windows and have the desktop edition of MS Office installed if you want to be able to debug them.

You may consider creating web add-ins instead. They can be loaded by Office for MAC too.

Upvotes: 2

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