Office Project Templates

Visual Studio Tools for Office includes project templates in the New Project dialog box and in the Add Project dialog box. You can use these project templates to create new document-level customizations, application-level add-ins, and SharePoint workflow projects in Visual Basic and Visual C#.

For information about using InfoPath form templates, see Developing InfoPath Managed Code Form Templates.

In This Section

• Excel Workbook Project Template
  A project that you can use to create a customization for a new or existing Microsoft Office Excel workbook.

• Excel Template Project Template
  A project that you can use to create a customization for a new or existing Excel template.

• Word Document Project Template
  A project that you can use to create a customization for a new or existing Microsoft Office Word document.

• Word Template Project Template
  A project that you can use to create a customization for a new or existing Word template.

• SharePoint Workflow Project Templates
  Projects that you can use to create sequential and state machine workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• 2003 Microsoft Office Add-in Project Templates
  Projects that you can use to create add-ins for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

• 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in Project Templates
  Projects that you can use to create add-ins for applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Related Sections

• Creating Office Solutions in Visual Studio
  Provides links to information about creating Microsoft Office solutions.

• General Reference (Visual Studio Tools for Office)
  Provides links to topics that contain technical details for using Visual Studio Tools for Office.

• Getting Started (Visual Studio Tools for Office)
  Provides links to information about installing Visual Studio Tools for Office, how to begin creating solutions, and what has changed since the earlier version.