Office System as a Development Platform
We're seeing more and more examples everyday of customers and partners either using or wanting to use Microsoft Office 2003 as a Smart Client for business applications that collect, analyze, manipulate, or present information, that uses the power available on the desktop, and that enables the end user to work in a very familiar environment.
Here are just a few links to get you started if you're new to Office 2003 Development:
- Office Developer Center
- Office 2003
- Excel
- InfoPath
- Information Bridge
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Research Services
- SharePoint Portal Server
- Smart Tags and Smart Documents
- Visio
- Visual Studio Tools for Office
- Word
- XML in Office
To see what's new in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office click here. We'll post deeper content next week specifically on VSTO2 -- their team Blog is here.
--Darryl