OFFICE AUTOMATION LICENSING

Dear all,
If i develop a windows based application VB.NET , it need to export some
excel and word document from the VB.NET application. such as excel report or
word report and it need to import the reference of office component to do
that, is it ok to deploy the windows application together with the imported
office component dll library to client machine?

Alex
Fri Sep 16 05:55:47 CDT 2005

Hi Joe,

AFAIK, you can redistribute the imported DLLs royalty free. However, don't
forget that they won't work unless the client machine has Office installed
already, so you can think of that as the client's license to use the DLLs in
the first place.

Cheers,
Alex



"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD4BD018-DA0F-449A-B2CF-E471A2AED128@microsoft.com...
> Dear all,
> If i develop a windows based application VB.NET , it need to export some
> excel and word document from the VB.NET application. such as excel report
> or
> word report and it need to import the reference of office component to do
> that, is it ok to deploy the windows application together with the
> imported
> office component dll library to client machine?

Herfried
Fri Sep 16 05:59:57 CDT 2005

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> If i develop a windows based application VB.NET , it need to export some
> excel and word document from the VB.NET application. such as excel report
> or
> word report and it need to import the reference of office component to do
> that, is it ok to deploy the windows application together with the
> imported
> office component dll library to client machine?

No. A licensed version of Office must be installed on the client.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Joe
Fri Sep 16 06:36:02 CDT 2005

Using the VB.NET imports the office component dll and install it into the
client machine , it can export excel(xls) or office(doc) report
If the client install excel viewer and office viewer. Can this ok for the
license



"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> > If i develop a windows based application VB.NET , it need to export some
> > excel and word document from the VB.NET application. such as excel report
> > or
> > word report and it need to import the reference of office component to do
> > that, is it ok to deploy the windows application together with the
> > imported
> > office component dll library to client machine?
>
> No. A licensed version of Office must be installed on the client.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>
>