Writespace on LifeHacker and Word 2003 Support

Writespace is an open source full screen writing environment, developed with WPF as an add-in for Word 2007 which I host on Codeplex.

A few days ago I started to get emails from people who had downloaded Writespace and I noticed a huge increase in downloads. Apparently the popular website LifeHacker had written an article about it, which is cool.

There was also a request for Word 2003 support, so I quickly created a Writespace solution for Word 2003 and added it to the source control over at the Codeplex site. I’m not going to release it yet though. The setup for the Word 2003 version is in there, but I don’t have any experience in packaging/deploying Word 2003 add-ins based on VSTO which ships with VS 2008. Not entirely sure of how to add or make sure the client machine has the Office PIM’s installed on his or her machine for one, and I don’t want to end up with a lot of questions and support :)

So, if you read this and know how to created a nice Word 2003 add-in setup which includes all things necessary, please contact me.

Feel free to download the source and build/use/test the Word 2003 version and give me feedback on it.