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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:06:54+00:00

We created an application that uses Office 2007 (Excel 2007) to read in data

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We created an application that uses Office 2007 (Excel 2007) to read in data from an Excel worksheet. However. I noticed that when I want to deploy the application on a system with Office 2003 installed, it crashes because other PIA’s (and other dll’s) need to be referenced for this version of office.

Do I need to compile different versions of my application to be able to support different versions of Office or is there a more elegant solution for this problem?

I use Visual Studio 2010 (C#) and the .Net 4.0 platform.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As you’re using .NET 4, you can use “embedded” PIAs (aka “No PIA”). Change the option on the Office reference so that “Embed Interop Types” is True.

    So long as you only use features of Office which are supported on the machine you deploy on, you should be fine.

    It also means that:
    – You don’t need to worry about the PIA itself not being present on the target machine
    – Any methods or properties which are of the VARIANT type in the original COM interface are now represented using dynamic in your code, which can make your life simpler

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