VSX203: Visual Studio Tools for Applications

In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA), which provides managed extensibility and a Visual Studio based scripting environment for both Component Object Model (COM) and Microsoft .NET applications. When integrated into an application, VSTA can help accelerate the development of custom solutions, making it easier for development teams, customers, and partners to tailor applications to meet their specific business needs. In this session, learn how integrate VSTA in a sample application to brings the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to your application based on the .NET platform. Also discussed will be the future of VBA as it will ship with Office 2010.