First: if I am in the wrong group here, please point me to the
appropriate ng.

So far, I have done all of my programming for PowerPoint addins in
VBA. I have created one small class in Perl, which my addin code
accesses through a .dll which is registered using regsvr32.

I would like to take advantage of some of the functionality provided
by vb.net. I downloaded VS 2008 Beta 2 and installed it ok on XP
SP2. Now I am trying to generate and deploy just a small test class,
and I'm totally stuck, puzzled, and frustrated.

I seem to be able to build something ok - I can see a whole bunch of
files gettting generated (mainfests, .dll, etc.) in different
directories (bin, debug, release, etc.) I have no idea what to do
from that point on. For instance, how am I supposed to build those
files soat they are COM-visible? What's all this about no-regsiter
COM - do I have run regasm on some, or all, of these files? Which?
Should I be able to see the test class' library in VBA->References (I
don't).

I found one reference to VBA-.NET developemnt that said I should
generate a .snk file (which I did do - I can see it). But when I try
to add an statement to the generated
AssemblyInfo.vb file, VS gives me a warning.

I'm pretty sure that most of my problems stem from not knowing doodly-
squat about development in the VS Express environment. Can anyone
point me to a step-by-step guide for generating a small class in that
environment which can be accessed from VBA?

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