What's New in Office Development

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This topic describes changes that have been made to Office development tools in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview release.

You cannot create new Office projects that target the 2007 Microsoft Office system or the .NET Framework 3.5 by using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. Office project templates in the current version of Visual Studio target only Microsoft Office 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.

For more information, see How to: Create Office Projects in Visual Studio.

When you upgrade a document-level customization project in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, Visual Studio modifies the project to target Microsoft Office 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. If the document in your project has a binary format, such as documents that have an .xls or .doc extension, Visual Studio converts the document to the Office Open XML format.

Application-level projects can continue to target the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the .NET Framework 3.5.

For more information, see Upgrading and Migrating Office Solutions.

How to: Create Office Projects in Visual Studio

Office Solutions Development Overview

Architecture of Document-Level Customizations

Architecture of Application-Level Add-Ins

Getting Started (Office Development in Visual Studio)

Upgrading and Migrating Office Solutions

Securing Office Solutions