Solved: Is Visual Studio .Net the solution for Office Products

[jimliu]

HI,

I read somewhere that Visual Studio .Net can develop solutions for Office products, like Word, Excel etc, and it is called VSTO. I am used to Java or Java-like languages, like JScript or J#, but not used to VB or VBA or VBScript. Currently I have to use VBA to develop solutions for Office 2000/2003 products, which severely lowers my productivity.

My question is: what is the current situation with VSTO? Which version of Visual Studio .Net (or VSTO) can I use to code in Visual J# to develop projects for which version of Office?

Thank you very much.
Best regards
Jim

[sheeeng]

刘先生 (Mr. JimLiu)

欢迎使用 VBAX 论坛。 (Welcome to VBAX Forum.)

VSTO exists in version 2003 and 2005. Both can use with Office 2003. You will need Visual Studio 2003 for VSTO 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1) and Visual Studio 2005 for VSTO 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0).

你可以在GOOGLE找多点资料。(You can find more information with Google.)

Check this out.
[Getting Started: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005]
http://vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=49498#post49498

IMO, I think J# can be implement with VSTO. .NET Framework can support many languages. Please correct me if i'm wrong. :doh:

HTH.