Learn how easy it is to customize the Office 2010 and Office 2007 Fluent user interface.
You can use the Microsoft Office developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 to create .NET Framework applications that extend Microsoft Office 2010 and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. These applications are also named Office solutions.
The Office developer tools provide features that help you create Office solutions to suit a variety of business needs. The tools include project templates to help you create Office solutions by using Visual Basic or Visual C#, and visual designers that help you create custom user interfaces for your Office solutions.