> To use Outlook 2010 within my C# application I need to be sure that
> the proper Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll (version 14) exists in
> the accessible path. This dll comes with Visual Studio 2010, and of
> course I cannot tell the users to install VS 2010 on their system. I
> tested my application on a system that does not have VS 2010, and it
> worked fine as long as the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll is
> located at the same directory where the application resides.
>
> Now, do I have any license violation if I zip
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll with my application? There is PIA
> but only for Office 2007 (that is, even if the user installs PIA for
> 2007, it won't work with my application because it will throw a
> FileLoadException), and I don't need other dll's like the ones for
> PowerPoint or Word. Plus I don't want to cause users any
> inconveniences like installing another package just to use my
> application.
>
> I once saw a person who claimed to be one of the developers of Outlook
> at "microsoft.public.outlook.general". However, since my question
> seems more appropriate for microsoft.public.outlook.interop, I post it
> here. I would like to have an answer from someone who is part of the
> Outlook team or who have had the same question and got the answer from
> a reliable source. I've already searched the Internet for the answers,
> so I'm afraid that answers like "probably...", "I'm not sure but..."
> wouldn't help me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> PS: I already read pages like
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vsto/thread/101c03cd-5e3b-44db-b147-189d48a113a9/