VSTO & MS Access

VSTO & MS Access

• markiv

  Here's the info on how VSTO 2005 is packaged:
  
  * VSTO 2005 (including the Access Developer Extensions) will be part and parcel of Visual Studio Team System.
  
  * VSTO 2005 (including the Access Developer Extensions) will all be included in the MSDN Professional and Premium subscriptions.
  
  * VSTO 2005 (including the Access Developer Extensions) will be released as a standalone product.
  
  I hope this helps!
  
  Thanks!
  Mike Hernandez
  Community Program Manager
  VSTO Team

  
  

• Black Bits Neeraj

  I believe VSTO 2003 was a separate box. It was not part of the VS 2003 Professional. See the below link, Access Extensions are there
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vsto/default.aspx
  
  

• ToddKitta

  As an MSDN Subscription you are given access according to your subscription level, the VSTO 2 bits are available for download in the Subscription downloads.
  
  Regards
  
  

• Developr

  VSTO 1 & 2 (2003 & 2005) doesn't allow you to work with MS-Access.
  
  IIRC, it will be possible, with VSTO 3, to develop Access Addin (Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2005/09/28/474958.aspx).
  
  But, for the moment, you will need to do some MS-Access automation if you want to work with it in your application.
  
  HTH.
  
  Bye.
  
  

• Ranju_Akram

  Mike,
  Will be have to wait for VS2005 Pro media in order to get VSTO 2005, or will there a download I have downloaded VS2005 Pro, but have not found VSTO yet.
  
  Thanks.
  

• Jonathan Barbara

  Yes, the Access deployment wizard is included in VSTO. I think it's on the Access Developer Extensions CD-ROM.
  
  

• JimZim

  I just looked through the box of CD's that came with VS 2003 and there is no CD called "Access Developer's Extensions".  The only thing remotely close is the Office Tools CD which we have already looked over 100 times.  I bought the Professional Edition of VS 2003.  Am I missing a CD   Should the Access Developer Extensions be included
  
  Thanks Again
  
  

• dick9

  We are currently developing Access 2000 databases.  That works fine because we have the Office 2000 Developer Edition.  We are now corporately upgrading to Office 2003 and that is where the problem is coming up.  How do we deploy our Access databases on Access 2003 machines   The short term solution has been to install Office 2003, but leave out Access 2003 and replace it with Access 2000.  Far from ideal if you ask me. 
  
  I guess now I have to go through the justification process with two options:
  
  1.  Ask for approx $250 CDN for the Access Developer Extension Addition to Visual Studio 2003.
  
  2.  Ask for $772 CDN to upgrade from VS2003 Pro to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System.  We do not have an MSDN subscription so this seems like the best route.  It's too bad that the package Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not include the access developer extensions...seems a shame to give up 64 bit support to get the access developer tools since 64 bit is the future.  I'm based my information on http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/editions/pro/Default.aspx
  
  Unfortunately for me, justifying another $772 for an upgrade just shortly after upgrading to VS2003 is going to be a tough sell.  Time to take off the engineer hat and put on the salesman hat.
  
  Thanks Again
  
  

• lifeforms

  You need to be more precise. What doesn't work Do you get any error messages

  
  
  

• saavyone

  Additionally you dont say what version of Access you are wishing to develop an application for, the Access Runtime License is built per version of Access and originally was included in the Office Developer Edition FYI
  
  Regards
  
  

• vishu_gupta

  I should be more clear.  We are not even developing add-ins for Access.  I'd like to do the simple stuff.  Develop an Access database (currently just with VBA) and some 3rd party controls.  They run the package & deployment wizard (not sure what it's called now) and create a setup file.  Currently, we can't even do this with VS.net 2003 and Access 2003.  Am I missing something   This should be a very simple task.
  
  Thanks

  
  
  

• WylieECoyote

  My problem is that the tools to deploy a MS Access database are not included in VSTO 2003.  How do I deploy a MS Access database   In office 2000 there used to be the package & deployment wizard.  Now there is nothing.  Reading the advertisements I thought this tool was included in VSTO 2003 but it does not look like it.

  
  
  

• seeker55

  Thank you very much for the link.  That definitely proves that the Access Developer Tools are a separate product from VS2003 Pro.  Looking forward, will VS 2005 include VSTO(and Access Dev Tools) as part of the professional package or will it still be a separate item
  
  Thank you very much
  
  
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