The document summarizes the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies redistributable package. It includes 38 assemblies that provide interoperability between Office 2003 products and .NET applications. It requires Office 2003 and the .NET 1.1 framework, and can be installed via double-clicking the MSI file or running msiexec. Known issues include Project removing typelib registration for one assembly and InfoPath PIA's only installing if SP1 is present. The redistributable shouldn't be uninstalled by solutions using the PIA's and will leave assemblies in the GAC if .NET is uninstalled first.

1. Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies Readme File
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Contents
What is the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies redistributable package........1
Assemblies included in O2003PIA.MSI.............................................................1
System Requirements....................................................................................2
Installation...................................................................................................2
Known issues...............................................................................................2
What is the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
redistributable package
The Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies redistributable is a Windows Installer
package which contains the Primary Interop Assemblies for Microsoft Office System
2003 products. Specifically, the redistributable contains the PIA’s for the following
products:
1 Microsoft Access
2 Microsoft Excel
3 Microsoft FrontPage®
4 Microsoft InfoPath®
5 Microsoft Outlook®
6 Microsoft PowerPoint®
7 Microsoft Project
8 Microsoft Publisher
9 Microsoft Visio®
10 Microsoft Word
In addition, the redist package contains other PIA’s which are common to many of
the above Microsoft products.
Assemblies included in O2003PIA.MSI
11 ADODB.dll
12 dao.dll
13 ipdmctrl.dll
14 Microsoft.mshtml.dll
15 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.dll
16 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll
17 Microsoft.Office.Interop.FrontPage.dll
18 Microsoft.Office.Interop.FrontPageEditor.dll
19 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Graph.dll
20 Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.dll
21 Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.SemiTrust.dll
22 Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.Xml.dll
23 Microsoft.Office.Interop.MSProject.dll
24 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll

2. 25 Microsoft.Office.Interop.OutlookViewCtl.dll
26 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Owc11.dll
27 Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll
28 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Publisher.dll
29 Microsoft.Office.Interop.SmartTag.dll
30 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio.dll
31 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio.SaveAsWeb.dll
32 Microsoft.Office.Interop.VisOcx.dll
33 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll
34 Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.dll
35 Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.Forms.dll
36 mscomctl.dll
37 msdatasrc.dll
38 office.dll
39 stdole.dll
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements to install the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
are:
40 A Microsoft Office System 2003 product
41 .NET Framework 1.1 or higher
Installation
To install the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies, follow one of the following
methods:
42 Double-click the O2003PIA.msi file
43 Execute “msiexec.exe /i O2003pia.msi”, or
44 Wrap the O2003pia.msi in another setup package through Visual Studio or
other Windows Installer aware setup editor.
Please note that the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies setup does not
support the /a or /j options for MsiExec.
Known issues
For updated information, please visit the MSDN Office Developer Center at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office.
Install
45 Installing Microsoft Project after installing the Office 2003 Primary Interop
Assemblies removes the PIA typelib registration for OWC11.
46 InfoPath PIA’s are only installed by the Office 2003 Primary Interop
Assemblies redistributable if Office 2003 SP1 is present.
47 Installing Office 2003 Service Pack 1 after installing the Office 2003
Primary Interop Assemblies may require a repair of the Office 2003
Primary Interop Assemblies

3. Uninstall
48 After installing the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies as a part of the
setup of a managed code solution, you should not uninstall the
redistributable. Doing so may remove the PIA’s even if another managed
code solution which installed the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
is installed. Multiple installations of the Office 2003 Primary Interop
Assemblies are not possible, therefore, removing the redistributable will
not take into account other managed code solutions that are using the
included PIA’s. Removal of the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies
should be an end user action from Control Panel/Add Remove Programs.
49 Uninstalling the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies after uninstalling
the .NET framework will leave the PIA’s on the hard disk in the Global
Assembly Cache (GAC).