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Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition or VSTO 2005 SE for short) is a free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that empowers developers to build applications targeting the 2007 Office system. Developers can now harness the benefits of the 2007 Office system platform and create Office-based solutions using the professional development environment of Visual Studio 2005.

Anyone who has a licensed version of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office or Visual Studio Professional and above (either standalone versions or via an MSDN Premium or Professional subscription) is eligible to download a free copy of VSTO 2005 SE.
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Learn how to create a VSTO 2005 SE add-in that enables the user to query a data source and view the results. After you understand the process of creating a data-driven task pane, you learn how to add data from the result set to the active document.

Features

VSTO 2005 SE includes the following functionality:

  • Application-level add-in support for the most popular 2007 Office System applications including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, InfoPath, and Visio, and provides safe loading/unloading and easy management of managed add-ins.
  • Design-time and runtime support for key 2007 Office System features such as the Ribbon, Custom Task Panes, and Outlook forms regions.
  • Design-time support for InfoPath 2007 form templates.
  • Maintainability and compatibility assurances. VSTO 2005 SE ensures that the applications customers have built on Office 2003 with VSTO 2005 continue to run with 2007 Office system.
  • The ability to run in Visual Studio 2005 Professional, in addition to those Visual Studio versions already supported, including all of the MSDN subscriptions and Visual Studio Team System family of products.
  • Expanded application-level add-in support for these Office 2003 Standard and Professional applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Visio.

  

Office Development with Visual Studio Team Blogs

BUG: “Old format or invalid type library” error when automating Excel (Christin Boyd)
A customer recently reported this bug when running their Shared Addin for Excel on French Windows.&#... more
Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks (Beth Massi)
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (MVP) up on the VSTO Dev Cente... more
32bit Visual Studio and 64bit Office (Christin Boyd)
Visual Studio 2010 will ship with a 32bit version, and no 64bit version.  My team built a very... more
Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)
Mary Lee recently posted a blog entry that describes Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single... more

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Videos

VSTO 2005 Second Edition DemoVSTO 2005 Second Edition Demo

Andrew Whitechapel gives a brief demo that reviews key developer features such as new default templates, Ribbon customization, creating custom task panes, and more.

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Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition
VSTO 2005 SE offers several important new features to support Office programmability. Whether it’s in the revolutionized and highly extensible Office user interface or in the support for managed add-ins in Office applications not previously covered by Visual Studio Tools for Office, there exist a number of great new opportunities and challenges for Office solution developers.   
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