Ok, so I’m getting back to development after a hiatus and decided to tackle a Word add-in for my company. It’ll really help me to be productive when I get it done so I figure it’s worth a little bit of investment on my part.

I go and fire up Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Word Add-in project. Give it a name and when I look at the namespace I see:

This is the name of my project. When I go to change it via Project Properties I see:

Ok, this is odd. The Root namespace property is disabled and is set to the sane name as my project file. Doing some quick searches I find that VSTO disables your ability to change the namespace. You need to name your project with the name you want to use for your namespace.

Well, I found someone that make have a workaround here. Haven’t tested it yet, so I can’t confirm it does as expected.