2003 System Managed Reference

This section contains API reference documentation for developing Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions for Microsoft Office 2003.

Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions for the 2007 Microsoft Office system use a different set of assemblies in the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime. For information, see Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview and 2007 System Managed Reference.

In This Section

  • Microsoft.Office.Tools
    Contains classes common to programming Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions. These include the base class for application-level add-ins, and classes for creating actions panes and smart tags in document-level customizations.

  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime
    Contains exceptions that can be thrown by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime, several classes that can be used to cache data in document-level customizations, and the ServerDocument class.

  • Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
    Contains host controls and host items that can be used in document-level customizations for Microsoft Office Word.

  • Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Controls
    Contains implementations of Word controls and managed controls that can be used in document-level customizations for Word.

  • Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
    Contains host controls and host items that can be used in document-level customizations for Microsoft Office Excel.

  • Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Controls
    Contains implementations of Excel controls and managed controls that can be used in document-level customizations for Excel.

See Also

Concepts

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview

2007 System Managed Reference

Creating Office Solutions in Visual Studio

Other Resources

Getting Started (Visual Studio Tools for Office)

Samples and Walkthroughs (Office Development)