Download details: Office Tool: COM Shim Wizards

Download details: Office Tool: COM Shim Wizards

"Office Tool: COM Shim Wizards
Wizards you can use to create COM shim DLLs for managed Office application extensions. COM shims allow you to isolate managed extensions from each other, and help to increase the security of these extensions.
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This download provides Visual Studio .NET wizards to help you create shims for three types of managed Office extensions: COM add-ins, smart tags, and real-time data components. Use COM shims to help achieve better security and isolation for your managed Office extensions."

Sounds like something that might come in handy for when I do Office development...

(via ActiveWin)

Update #1 9/29/2004 @ 6:35AM PDT:
Here's the assoicated article for the download...

"Summary: Explains how to isolate Microsoft Office extensions from each other and why you should do so. Presents a set of new Microsoft Visual Studio .NET wizards that automate the generation of COM shims for managed Office extensions."

Isolating Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard


(via .NET4Office (Eric Carter) - Add-in Shimming Wizard!