Hello
Please tell me the advantage of having vsto when creating solutions that use office as interface or in background or whatever, in general. It seems like you can have the actual office document screen loaded in VSTO but not in VSpro. What other advantages does vsto have Does vsto produce more lines of code automatically so that you dont write as much code by yourself or something
is there anything that VS pro can not do that VSTO can that really make a big difference. Im considering which version of vs to get. please help.
VSTO over VS pro?
Dmitriy Vasyura
VS pro gives you access to download and install tools for office. At least with the MSDN subscription.
I haven't gone any further than downloading and installation. But I'll post more as I get into it.
hron
thanks for the info and link.
could you technically write same document centric solution that uses data island and server side document manipulation by VS pro as well but with less plumbing done for you or is it impossible or unreasonably more tedious to write that kind of program with VSpro
if you get the office tool thing for VS pro could you come close to VSTO capability
Marian Luparu
Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 2005 is a set that simply cannot be compared to Visual Studio Professional. It provides an extended toolset to develop document oriented Word and Excel solutions as well as a toolset to develop Outlook add-ins. But that is not all...
It is a complete different toolset compared to the 'regular' programming interface using only the Office Object Models. You could say it provides you a RAD experience in Office development. A lot of plumbing is handled for you.
It is advised to explore http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/ to get some more information about the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 2005.
-= Maarten =-