Niklas
You can write COM add-ins in .net for Office 2000
Just use an extensibility >> shared add-in project
The 2003 professional limitation is only for VSTO.
cheers
Simon

"Niklas" <Niklas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I'm working in an environment consisting of Windows2000 (SP4), Office 2000
> (SP3), .NET Framework 1.1 and VS2003 (which I have as a developer) and
> there
> will be no change until late 2007. I'm fed up with all our Excel
> applications
> created with VBA! Some of the applications consist of 10000 rows of VBA
> code.
> I can read about a lot of cool .NET & Office stuff at MSDN but they only
> apply to Office2003, which I can not use. What about us using Office2000?
> I
> want to convert some of the old Excel applications/templates but I don't
> want
> to do it with "fresh" VBA, instead I want to use Excel2000 together with
> .NET
> in one way or another...is this possible?
> Regards
> /Niklas