(Visual Studio Tools
for Office) Development tools that are part of Visual Studio for
enhancing Office applications. Based on Microsoft's .NET environment, VSTO is
used to create Office "add-ins" that perform functions such as
automatically filling in fields in a Word or Excel document and e-mailing the
files or uploading them to a SharePoint server. As of VSTO 2005, support for
enhancing Outlook was added.
Prior to VSTO, macros and Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA) were the common methods used to customize Office
programs. Although they are still used, VSTO makes it easier to code many types
of enhancements, which reside as separate DLLs in the user's computer.
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