Programming Office add-in in VSTO 2005 SE, 2008 and 2010.
Add-in Express for Office and VSTO Developer's Guide.

Add-in Express™
for Microsoft® Office and VSTO

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Why Add-in Express for VSTO?

Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and VSTO technology is now available for our custom development services only. If you are an existing customer of this tool, please do not worry, we will continue supporting it for you.

Add-in Express for VSTO is a development tool designed to simplify and speed up the development of add-ins / plugins for Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio as well as Excel worksheets and Word documents in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO 2005 SE, VSTO 2008 and VSTO 2010). It provides a number of specialized components that allow the developer to jump through the interface programming phase to the functional programming phase with a minimal loss of time. The main destination of Add-in Express for VSTO is to provide you, a VSTO developer, with a solution that allows you to do far less coding than you have to do now.

Supported IDEs:

Visual Studio 2005 with VSTO 2005 SE, Visual Studio 2008 with VSTO 3, Visual Studio 2010 with VSTO 4, Delphi Prism 2009, 2010, 2011 with VSTO

Supported languages:

Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Delphi Prism

Supported applications:

Microsoft Office Suites 2003, 2007, 2010 including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath





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