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Editorial Review
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office System is a professional development environment for individual developers building line-of-business applications using the Office System.
Main Features
Manufacturer: Microsoft CorporationManufacturer Part Number: U74-00171Manufacturer Website Address: www.microsoft.comSoftware Sub Type: Programming ToolSoftware Name: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office - Complete ProductFeatures & Benefits: Reduce End User Training Costs Increase Developer Productivity Reduce IT Operations Costs Easy use of XML Web services Rich Office UI and intuitive windows controls Separation of code and documents Professional developers tools and a powerful programming model Increase Information Worker Productivity Unlock business data stored in documents Custom solutions hosted inside Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003 and InfoPath 2003 Build line-of-business solutions quickly and efficiently Easily customize solutions. Tailor Word, Excel, Outlook, or InfoPath capabilities to meet your unique application requirements Save time with improved code editing. Use the Visual Studio 2005 code editor to automatically find, suggest fixes for, and correct common programming errors Harness the familiar functionality of the Microsoft Office System Reduce training costs. Minimize costly, time-consuming user training by building solutions based on the familiar Microsoft Office System user interface Create context-sensitive functionality. Use simple, programmatic access to the Excel and Word Action Pane and Smart Tags to easily create customized, context-sensitive functionalityLanguage Support: EnglishSuite Contents: Microsoft Visual Basic Microsoft Visual C#License
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Customer Reviews
Not quick and simple 
2007-05-05
I bought this product to do a quick and simple task: Query an Access database with a date range from the user, and put the filtered data onto a spreadsheet. Many, many hours later, I still don't have an acceptable result. I have broken down and ordered two books, something I don't think should be necessary for such a simple task for someone with a decent programming background.
The biggest problem with this product is its documentation. There is a huge amount of information available, but it is very disjointed. Searches yeild all kinds of unrelated material. Examples seem to be marketing driven - show off the product's many glitzy features instead of providing simple, straightforward answers.
I am sure that given adequate investment in learning, this is a very powerful tool. But unless you want to make a career out of it, stay away. I have programmed Excel in Visual Basic, built Windows applications using Borland c++ builder, and written many thousands of lines of c and c++ under Windows and Linux, and never had as much trouble as I have with this product.
