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Differentiate between Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 with VSTO
See original GitHub issueMicrosoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make the Office version of 2019 “16.0” - The exact same as 2016.
The function getVersion() at /Shared/Shared.cs needs to return the string “2013”, “2016” or “2019”, depending on what version of Microsoft Office they are using.
(bonus points for detecting Office 365)
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I couldn’t see an obvious way to do this. However, Microsoft have a rather complex vbs script available which purports to reliably differentiate between office products, might be worth a look: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/68b80aba-130d-4ad4-aa45-832b1ee49602
Sorry, I don’t usually work with C# projects, so I haven’t really made it easy to work with properly Thanks