To use the features of a Microsoft Office application from an Office project, you must use the primary interop assembly (PIA) for the application. The PIA enables managed code to interact with a Microsoft Office application's COM-based object model. When you create a new Office project, Visual Studio adds references to the PIAs that are required to build the project. In some scenarios, you might n
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