Systems Engineering

The Microsoft Office Project 2007 SDK is a release for solution providers, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Project Server 2007 platform, and how to extend and integrate Project Server 2007 with other applications for enterprise project management (EPM). It features conceptual and “How to” articles, sample code, and programming references.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft^® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).

Install VSTO 2005 SE to create new application-level add-ins for six applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and five in Microsoft Office 2003. Use managed code to customize task panes and the Ribbon in the 2007 Microsoft Office system applications.

VSTO 2005 SE includes support for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form template projects, previously available as a separate product known as the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005. You can now design InfoPath 2007 form solutions right in the Visual Studio 2005 environment if you have InfoPath 2007 installed on your computer.

Feature highlights:

• Application-level add-in projects for six applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system: Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Visio 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007.
• Support for the new Ribbon user interface extensibility model.
• Support for the new application-level customizable task pane.
• Support for managed code behind InfoPath 2007 forms.
• Application-level add-in projects for five Microsoft Office 2003 applications (Professional Edition and Standard Edition): Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Visio 2003, and Microsoft Office Word 2003.

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE) redistributable package installs the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, which is required to run solutions built using VSTO 2005 or VSTO 2005 SE. This runtime supports solutions built for Microsoft Office 2003 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

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Thomas Quinn is the Architect for the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office System (code name “Cypress”).  TQ discusses the engineering decisions behind the design of the tools.  He explains the decision to create a new base project type that allowed the team to create Application Add-in projects for both Office 2003 and Office 2007.  He explains the rationale behind the change to the Outlook Add-in project type.

DEV303- Security and Deployment Links

Whitepapers

Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions
Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerOverview.asp

Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions
Using Windows Installer: Walkthroughs (Part 2 of 2)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerWalkthrough.asp

Documentation

VSTO Security MSDN documentation

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/k64zb6we(VS.80).aspx

VSTO Deployment MSDN documentation

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/hesc2788(VS.80).aspx

Security and Deployment walkthroughs

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404813.aspx

Visual Studio 2005 Bootstrapper

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/Bootstrapper/

VSTO Outlook add-in architecture

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/Office_VSTOOutlookAdd-inArchitecture.asp

Tools

PSS VSTO Client Troubleshooter

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68531

Manifest Generation and Editing Tool (Mage.exe)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/acz3y3te.aspx

VSTO Application Manifest Editor Sample

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/Office_vstoApplicationManifestEditor.asp

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta, or VSTO 2005 SE Beta 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.