Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition or VSTO 2005 SE for short) is a free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that empowers developers to build applications targeting the 2007 Office system. Developers can now harness the benefits of the 2007 Office system platform and create Office-based solutions using the professional development environment of Visual Studio 2005.
Learn how to create a VSTO 2005 SE add-in that enables the user to query a data source and view the results. After you understand the process of creating a data-driven task pane, you learn how to add data from the result set to the active document.
VSTO 2005 SE includes the following functionality:
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