Getting Started (Office Development in Visual Studio)

Provides background information for developing Office solutions in Visual Studio.

Describes new Office development features and features that have changed since the previous version of Visual Studio.

Describes the new design of Office projects that target the .NET Framework 4 or the .NET Framework 4.5, and lists breaking changes to code in Office projects that you migrate to the .NET Framework 4 or the .NET Framework 4.5.

Describes which applications and projects are required to use Office development features such as Ribbon extensibility, custom task panes, actions panes, and form regions.

Provides information and steps for installing the Office development tools, the runtime that enables Office solutions to run on end user computers, and the Office primary interop assemblies.

Provides a summary of the important concepts needed to use Visual Studio to create document-level customizations for Excel.

Provides a summary of the important concepts needed to use Visual Studio to create document-level customizations for Word.

Provides a summary of the important concepts needed to use Visual Studio to create application-level add-ins for Microsoft Office applications.

Describes the relative strengths of Visual Basic for Applications and the Office development tools in Visual Studio for developing Office solutions.

Provides links to topics that can help solve common problems.

Provides links to sample applications and topics that give step-by-step instructions for performing common tasks.

Provides information about how to migrate projects that were created by using earlier versions of Visual Studio to the current release.

Describes the components of Office solutions and how they work at design time and run time.

Provides information about how to create an Office project and configure your project in Visual Studio.

Provides information about how to implement code and user interface customizations in an Office project.

Provides information about security requirements for Office solutions.

Provides information about how to make Office solutions available to your users, and describes the major issues to consider when you choose a deployment method and set security.

Contains links into native developer reference material for Office applications.

Contains links into videos and technical articles about Office solutions created by using Visual Studio.