We are currently investigating options for migrating a legacy application built using .NET 1.1 to .NET 4. Office 2003 was used in the application and we need to migrate away to Office 2010.
The old application used CDO/MAPI to interact with Excel/Outlook… so what is the prescribed p&p for accessing Excel/Outlook 2010 from .NET 4?
It’s still COM, but there have been some upgrades to make it nicer. Things like:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CLRAndDLRAndBCLOhMyWhirlwindTourAroundNET4AndVisualStudio2010Beta1.aspx