Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications

4 Oct 2006 12:18 PM

jeff

We current a VS 2005 Professional license ... what does this Microsoft
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications offer that VS 2005 does not?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
JEff.

4 Oct 2006 1:01 PM

Izzy

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

jeff wrote:
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> We current a VS 2005 Professional license ... what does this Microsoft
> Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications offer that VS 2005 does not?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> JEff.

4 Oct 2006 1:27 PM

Paul Clement

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 05:18:57 -0700, "jeff" <jhersey at allnorth dottt com> wrote:

¤ We current a VS 2005 Professional license ... what does this Microsoft
¤ Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications offer that VS 2005 does not?
¤
¤ Any help would be greatly appreciated.

VSTA is an SDK that enables vendors to add .NET programmability to their applications. It is
essentially a subset of Visual Studio 2005 which supports the use of the Visual Basic and C#
programming languages. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is built upon the VSTA technology.

It's similar to the model that Microsoft used in the past for the VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications) SDK.

Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

4 Oct 2006 1:57 PM

jeff

so, can I easily build / deploy Outlook 2003 add-ins using VS2005
Professional ... or do I have to buy a license version of VSTO ?

Thanks
Jeff

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"Paul Clement" <UseAdddressAtEndofMess***@swspectrum.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 05:18:57 -0700, "jeff" <jhersey at allnorth dottt com>
> wrote:
>
> ¤ We current a VS 2005 Professional license ... what does this Microsoft
> ¤ Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications offer that VS 2005 does not?
> ¤
> ¤ Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> VSTA is an SDK that enables vendors to add .NET programmability to their
> applications. It is
> essentially a subset of Visual Studio 2005 which supports the use of the
> Visual Basic and C#
> programming languages. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is built upon
> the VSTA technology.
>
> It's similar to the model that Microsoft used in the past for the VBA
> (Visual Basic for
> Applications) SDK.
>
>
> Paul
> ~~~~
> Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

4 Oct 2006 7:14 PM

Paul Clement

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:57:36 -0700, "jeff" <jhersey at allnorth dottt com> wrote:

¤
¤ so, can I easily build / deploy Outlook 2003 add-ins using VS2005
¤ Professional ... or do I have to buy a license version of VSTO ?
¤

The add-in technology for Outlook 2003 implements COM. You can still build an add-in using Visual
Studio 2005 for Outlook, but it would work via COM interop. You don't need a license for VSTA or
VSTO.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnout2k2/html/odc_oladdinvbnet.asp

Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)