VSTO 2005 SE is all about adding application add-in support to VSTO. It doesn't include support for code behind Excel 2007 Documents and Word 2007 Documents. This support *is* available in Visual Studio 2008 and you can pick up the beta of VS 2008 and open your 2003 document projects and migrate them to Office 2007.

I don't particularly agree that VSTO 2005 SE is a different product than VSTO--it basically adds a bunch of add-in projects for Office 2003 and Office 2007 but doesn't provide any support for doc-level Office 2007 projects.

The reason we did this is that the document level projects are much more complex to get working than add-ins. So we decided to get an update to VSTO out there that supported add-ins for Office 2007 rather than wait until Visual Studio 2008 came out. The document level project support for Office 2007 was put into the VS 2008 release.
Eric Carter | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 2:53 am | #

Eric - Thanks for the info. Sorry if my phrasing was incorrect, but I was quoting Martin Sawicki who said "The idea behind it is to deliver a whole new product."

Your description is clear and concise--I just wish the naming were as clear!

Anyway, you answered my main question, which is "how can I build doc-level add-ins for Office 2007?" I'm not sure if I'll be able to run my demos in VS 2008, so may just have to stay in 2003 for the time being.
Dan Ciruli | Homepage | 06.10.07 - 12:45 pm | #