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More developer productivity - Visual Studio Tools for Office

Need to write a desktop application? Need integrated word processing or spreadsheet capabilities? Take a look at Visual Studio Tools for Office (officially known as the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System -- how's that for a long name? VSTO works for short. Disclaimer.)

There are a number of VSTO-related webcasts coming up in August that you'll probably want to take a look at. Action Panes are uber-cool.

View Control Programming in Word 2003 and Excel 2003
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
1:00 PM-2:30 PM PST
Information and registration: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=32724

Actions Pane and Managed Controls in Word 2003 and Excel 2003 with Visual Studio Tools for Office
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
1:00 PM-2:30 PM PST
Information and registration: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=32725

Security implications for Word and Excel programming with Visual Studio Tools for Office
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
11:00 AM-12:30 PM PST
Information and registration: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=32726

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 – Open Forum
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
1:00 PM-2:30 PM PST
Information and registration: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=32727

Server Document Generation in Visual Studio Tools for Office
Thursday, August 19, 2004
1:00 PM-2:30 PM PST
Information and registration: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=32728