Months before Office 2010 will hit the general availability deadline, Microsoft is taking the necessary measures to streamline the adoption of the next iteration of its productivity suite. In this regard, the Redmond company is offering a free tool to customers eyeing a migration to Office 2010 the coming years, designed to verify whether legacy applications developed for older versions of Office will play nice with the next generation of the product. The Beta release of the Compatibility Inspector can be grabbed via the Microsoft Download Center, and will enable customers to assess legacy code built for Office against the Office 2010 object model. The end purpose of the tool is to help users sniff out any possible code issues.

“The Microsoft Office 2010 Compatibility Inspector compares existing (legacy) code against the Office 2010 object model by using a text search for known properties and methods that have changed. You can run the tool against specific projects. You also have the option to mark those areas in the code where text search has identified a possible object model match. The comment will include description of what was found along with possible remediation link to online content or help,” the Redmond company stated.

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