Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Second Edition is here!

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Microsoft announced today the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Second Edition!

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.

Anyone who has a licensed version of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office or Visual Studio Professional and above (either standalone versions or via an MSDN Premium or Professional subscription) is eligible to download a free copy of VSTO 2005 SE Beta.  

You can download it for free and start playing around with the new features. I love that you have more project templates for Office Add-ins than in previous releases. Specially, if you are interested in developing solutions with the Ribbon or Custom Task Panes and other Office 2007 features, I would strongly recommend you to download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta.

We also launched today a new MSDN page for the VSTO 2005 SE release where we will publish more articles related to the latest VSTO release.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/office/tool/vsto/2005SE/default.aspx

Check out the latest ones:

Get a Hands-On Introduction to VSTO 2005 SE
Get an Inside Look at VSTO 2005 SE Design

Read Paul Stubbs's blog for more news.

 

Enjoy!

~Erika