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visual studio tools for office

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    Art
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    visual studio tools for office

    Hi,

    Can anyone tell me if visual studio tools for office enables one to do
    anything they couldn't do using visal studio? If not, does it make things
    easier?

    It sounds like an intriguing product, and there's an awful lot of material
    to read to find out what it does -- but from the little I've read it seems
    like it may merely be bits of code that the developer modifies.

    Right now, when I do work on Excel, I use the VB editor in Excel. This is
    not nearly as good as the visual studio environment -- additionally, it seems
    that classes don't work exactly the same way. I'd appreciate a better way to
    do things.

    What do you think?

    Art

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    Chip Pearson
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    Re: visual studio tools for office

    VTSO creates a DLL file containing a class called
    OfficeCodeBehind which is linked via custom properties to a
    particular workbook. Once this connection is established, you can
    use all the tools in VSNET. I don't use VTSO very often, because
    it doesn't really provide much more than does VBA and VB6.


    --
    Cordially,
    Chip Pearson
    Microsoft MVP - Excel
    Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
    www.cpearson.com




    "Art" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    > Hi,
    >
    > Can anyone tell me if visual studio tools for office enables
    > one to do
    > anything they couldn't do using visal studio? If not, does it
    > make things
    > easier?
    >
    > It sounds like an intriguing product, and there's an awful lot
    > of material
    > to read to find out what it does -- but from the little I've
    > read it seems
    > like it may merely be bits of code that the developer modifies.
    >
    > Right now, when I do work on Excel, I use the VB editor in
    > Excel. This is
    > not nearly as good as the visual studio environment --
    > additionally, it seems
    > that classes don't work exactly the same way. I'd appreciate a
    > better way to
    > do things.
    >
    > What do you think?
    >
    > Art




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