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Can Visual Studio be used with Excel?
Visual Studio provides project templates you can use to create document-level customizations and VSTO Add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel. You can use these solutions to automate Excel, extend Excel features, and customize the Excel user interface (UI).
What is VSTO add-in?
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in (project templates) and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the . NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) to expose their functionality via .
How do I install VSTO?
To install the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime
- Install the . NET Framework 4 or later. To download the .
- Run vstor_redist.exe to install the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime. You can download these setup files from Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office runtime.
How do I register my VSTO add-in?
If you want to register a VSTO Add-in to all users on a computer, you must use Windows Installer to deploy the VSTO Add-in. For more information about these deployment types, see Deploy an Office solution by using ClickOnce and Deploy an Office solution by using Windows Installer.
How do I install a VSTO file?
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- On your reference computer, install the vsto file manually.
- Export the following information from registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSTO\Security]
- Create a script that that applies the registry file, exported in step 2. REGEDIT /S REGFILE.REG.
- Install the VSTO file with the following syntax.
Where are VSTO add ins installed?
The required VSTO Add-in registry entries are located under the following registry keys where Root is HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE depending if the installation is for the current user or all users.
Where are VSTO Add-ins installed?
Is there an Excel add-in for VSTO?
This addin is based on Add-in Express for Office and VSTO and gives you an example of developing Excel add-ins, creating custom toolbars and controls, and accessing Excel objects. Add-in Express for Office and VSTO supports Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007 and Excel 2010.
How do I create a VSTO project in Visual Studio?
To create a new Excel VSTO Add-in project in Visual Studio. Start Visual Studio. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project. In the templates pane, expand Visual C# or Visual Basic, and then expand Office/SharePoint. Under the expanded Office/SharePoint node, select the Office Add-ins node.
How do I clean Excel VSTO add-ins in Visual Studio?
In Visual Studio, on the Build menu, click Clean Solution. Programming tasks that are specific to Excel VSTO Add-ins: Excel solutions. Using the object model of Excel: Excel object model overview.
How to use express VSTO toys with Visual Studio 2008?
When opened in the Visual Studio 2008, the projects will be automatically converted into the VS 2008 format. Add-in Express VSTO Toys adds to the Excel application a new toolbar or a ribbon tab (in Excel 2007) with several buttons: The custom buttons allow you to: