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And if you’re interested, the Bill Gates Keynote at the Office System Developer Conference 2005 is online. The VSTO demo is at around minute mark 24:30
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Thought that was quite good, VST looks like it might save a lot of effort – will be intresting to see how it pans out in real life. I think the need for 2003 with hold it back for quite a while.
Also, besides the need for 2003,
You have to install Visual Studio to use VSTO, which costs 500$-1500$ bucks(US) depending on the version you want.
Unfortunate. So I’m assuming VSTO is strictly for IT departments or users with fat wallets. I’ve never worked in an IT department and have a skinny wallet.
In my experience, office development was always at the bottom of the IT dept’s todo list, and office was so great because with a book/net and some free time, I could do the development myself, and I already had the VBA IDE sitting on my desktop. From a non-IT-Dept employee’s point of view, Seems like their giving the tools to the wrong people.
I’m passing and waiting to see what office 12 can do, hopefully everything VSTO can.
Interesting stuff though, the task pane looks very useful when you can program it easily. And automatically turning a named range to an object is a nice trick.
Access DB connectivity is not that hard already, REST web services are starting to make sense “as is”, Soap/WDSL web services are a complex monster for me though, anything to make them easier would be an improvement.
they are a set of good points!
I guess if you are developeing inside of excel itself, VST is not that useful?
As far as I can tell, VSTO is exclusively for .Net developers, not people who develop exclusively in Excel VBA.
Possibly somebody with further insight might elaborate?