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What's New for Developers in VSTO 3.0

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Visual Studio Tools for the Office system (3.0) is the key developer technology that enables you to create scalable, LOB solutions for Microsoft Office by using the Office development features included with Visual Studio 2008.

Steve Fox and I thought it would be a great idea to write an article that talks about the evolution of Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office and Office Development, how it all relates to Office Business Applications, the different business productivity solutions you can build using VSTO, and a brief overview of the rich set of features with which to build and deploy customized Office Business Applications using VSTO. We also provided links to resources that provide a deep dive to each feature.

The figure below shows the benefits of VSTO 3.0:

I really recommend reading our article. It is a good resource that will help you get started with Office development in Visual Studio 2008.

Also, if you are looking for detailed code samples, videos, and articles related to VSTO 3.0, please explore our MSDN technical articles, Visual How Tos, and reference documentation. Of course. the VSTO team blog is a must see.

Enjoy!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2008
    VSTO seems to be still geared only to broad-based organisation-level solutions, created and implemented by IT departments. VBA is still the only choice for those outside the IT canon, who are creating ad hoc Office automation solutions at for personal or workgroup use. Is there a vision to extend the reach of VSTO beyond developers to Office power users? IMHO, criteria for that would need to be:
  • no requirement for Visual Studio - the "dev environment" would need to be part of the Office applications. I'm sure if such a dev environment was included in Office as an optional install, most IT depts would not install it for the "users own good" (ie the convenience of IT depts, on the grounds of "security").
  • ability to install the dotnet framework and any other runtimes without admin rights.
  • "travel with the file deployment" eg. to a file share, Sharepoint site, email attachment, etc.