Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications Software Development Kit (SDK)

Brief Description

A powerful toolset for managed extensibility, Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) leverages the productivity of Visual Studio and the power of the .NET Framework, accelerating customization development while providing new levels of security and control.

Overview

With the familiar Visual Studio development environment, VSTA enables Visual Basic and Visual C# developers to easily build managed customizations for both COM and .NET applications. Sharing a common toolset with Visual Studio, VSTA provides a wealth of design-time features, a robust programming model, and seamless promotion of VSTA projects to full Visual Studio.

The VSTA SDK includes integration tools, samples, and documentation to help you get started with VSTA. The VSTA SDK provides one copy of VSTA for evaluation, development, and test purposes only.

Licensing

VSTA must be licensed from Microsoft for redistribution with applications -- contact Summit Software, Microsoft licensed agent for VSTA, at info@summsoft.com.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

Visual Studio 2005 Requirement: In order to install the VSTA 2005 SDK, you must have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or above installed.

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Instructions

Important: Make sure you have the latest service pack and critical updates for the version of Windows and Visual Studio 2005 that you are running. To find recent security updates, visit Windows Update and the Visual Studio 2005 website.