Friday, December 15, 2006
UDNUG-VSTOSE
OK, so that's alot of alphabet soup. Last night I attended the Utah .Net User Group (UDNUG) meeting. The speaker was former VFP Product Manager Robert Green. His topic was Visual Studio Tools for Office, Second Edition (VSTOSE).
What VSTO does is let you write COM add-ins for Office. VSTO does not ship as part of Visual Studio but is sold as a separate product. However, Robert said that when Orcas ships, that VSTO will be fully integrated and be in the box.
In previous versions of VSTO, the add-ins were attached to documents. There are two big enhancements in VSTOSE. First, you can create add-ins that can be attached to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc themselves rather than a particular document. Second, VSTOSE has added support for Office 2007, including the Ribbon. VSTOSE is free if you already have VSTO 2005.
If you're doing any Office automation work, VSTO is definately worth looking at...and it was good to see Robert again.
Update: Robert blogs about his presentation here.
What VSTO does is let you write COM add-ins for Office. VSTO does not ship as part of Visual Studio but is sold as a separate product. However, Robert said that when Orcas ships, that VSTO will be fully integrated and be in the box.
In previous versions of VSTO, the add-ins were attached to documents. There are two big enhancements in VSTOSE. First, you can create add-ins that can be attached to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc themselves rather than a particular document. Second, VSTOSE has added support for Office 2007, including the Ribbon. VSTOSE is free if you already have VSTO 2005.
If you're doing any Office automation work, VSTO is definately worth looking at...and it was good to see Robert again.
Update: Robert blogs about his presentation here.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 9:57:00 AM 
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