Beginning VSTO development
- by idazuwaika
Hi,
I'm quite confused with what are the necessary tools for VSTO develpment. Specifically I want to manipulate Excel 2003/2007 documents programmatically. I did quite a lot of VBA before, if you want to relate any answer to that.
Few questions I have about VSTO:
Can I use Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition C#/C++ for this?
Do I need to have .NET framework installed?
Does the resulting VSTO program need to have a copy of Office installed in the same system to run?
Direct links to the relevant tools/plugins/IDE will be appreciated.
Note: I'm totally new to VSTO and .NET but an Office power user. Have experience with COM programming.
Thanks.