Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System enables Visual Studio developers to quickly build custom line-of-business solutions based on Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft InfoPath. By adding deep integration with Microsoft Outlook, Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System adds an entirely new category of custom line-of-business applications built on top of Microsoft Office, including CRM system integration and sales force automation. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System empowers IT professionals, ISVs, and System Integrators to build robust Smart Client solutions for the Microsoft Office System.

•      Increase information worker productivity

•      Unlock business data stored in documents

•      Reduce end-user training costs

•      Increase developer productivity

•      Reduce IT operations costs 

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System* is a professional development environment for individual developers building line-of-business applications using the Microsoft Office System.

Build line-of-business solutions quickly and efficiently.
Microsoft Excel** 2003 and Microsoft Word** 2003 are now fully integrated into the integrated development environment (IDE), enabling developers to easily extend solutions using managed controls and providing a more intuitive design, development, and debugging experience.

•      Easily customize solutions. Tailor Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, or Microsoft 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.
Speed development by taking advantage of powerful capabilities of Microsoft Office, including document sharing, collaboration, rights management, numerical analysis, charting, e-mail and calendaring, and much more. 

•      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 functionality. 

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System includes: 

•      Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# programming languages

•      Tools for building Microsoft Windows and Web-based solutions

•      Integrated tools for visually designing databases, tables, queries, and stored procedures

•      Advanced debugging tools, including cross-machine debugging

•      Microsoft Office Access 2003 Developer Extensions and run-time license 

 New Features:

•      Custom solutions hosted inside Excel 2003, Word 2003, Outlook 2003, and InfoPath 2003

•      Easy use of XML Web services

•      Rich Office UI and intuitive Windows controls

•      Professional developers tools and a powerful programming model

•      Separation of code and documents 

New Feature Highlights:

•      Better Web Publishing: publish and administer Web sites more easily with the powerful combination of ASP .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

•      Clean Solution: now cleaning all those unwanted intermediate files out of your solution is a one-click operation.

•      Movie Collection Starter Kit: create a database program to organize your movie collection and learn about calling XML Web services in ASP ..NET 2.0.

The Microsoft Office System is not included; please acquire it separately
Microsoft Office System Professional Edition, Excel 2003, or Word 2003 stand-alone versions

• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; XP with Service Pack 2; XP Professional x64 Edition (WOW); Server 2003 with Service Pack 1; Server 2003 x64 Editions (WOW); Server 2003 R2; Server 2003 R2 x64 Editions (WOW); Vista
• 600 MHz or faster processor
• Developing and running Office customizations built with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office requires at least one of the following versions of Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office 2003, Professional Edition; Office 2003, Professional Edition with InfoPath; Word 2003; Excel 2003; InfoPath 2003; Outlook 2003
• To use the Microsoft Office Access 2003 Developer Extensions you must have the following installed: Microsoft Office 2003, Professional Edition, or Microsoft Office Access 2003
• 256 MB of RAM or more
• 2 GB of available hard-disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024x768 or higher-resolution display with 256 colors