Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the . NET Framework Common Language Runtime to expose their functionality via the . NET type system. As a result, it allows extensions to the Office applications to be written in .

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  • Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the . NET Framework Common Language Runtime to expose their functionality via the . NET type system. As a result, it allows extensions to the Office applications to be written in . NET languages as well as to use functionality and user interface constructs from Office applications in . NET applications. VSTO supersedes developer versions of Office 2000 and Office XP for office development. The runtime, although part of VSTO, is also downloadable separately. The VSTO add-ins allow VSTO applications and Office add-ins to be developed using the Visual Studio IDE. For Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, it was available only as a standalone edition with support for . NET languages limited to Visual Basic. NET and C#. It was also included as a part of the Visual Studio Team System. Later on, the Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Second Edition was released as a free add-in to Visual Studio Professional and above that includes Office 2007 and 2003 support. However, for Visual Studio Professional Edition, it installs only the application-level add-ins; it does not add the document-level customizations or other functionality (actions pane, host controls, visual document designer, etc) available in the full version of VSTO or Team System editions. With Visual Studio 2008, VSTO 3.0 is no longer available separately but is integrated with full functionality into Professional and Team System IDEs. VSTO version 3.0 and its runtime only work with Office 2007. (en)
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  • Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the . NET Framework Common Language Runtime to expose their functionality via the . NET type system. As a result, it allows extensions to the Office applications to be written in . (en)
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  • Visual Studio Tools for Office (en)
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