Tool Shed Tooltip #7: VSTO from Episode 1

It makes sense if users in your organization are using Office 2007 or 2003 to consider building your application on top of one of the many office products. Learn how in this video.

What is it?
Visual Studio Tools for Office is the premiere development tool for building Office Business Applications.

Download Site: included with VS 2008 Pro at msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio
 
Example Problem(s) it solves:
You want to automate a task in Excel for budget info that stores info to a DB and creates an email or Power Point from it automatically
Enhance Word s ribbon with your own companies customized set of tools.

Installation Notes: You need to have office 2007 installed on your development machine. Trial is available. 

This clip is Russ' Tool Shed Tooltip #7, the seventh and final of the clips from Episode One of the TV Show, Russ' Tool Shed presents... It's All About The Tools hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast