Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Creating an Office Add-in

To start creating your own Office add-in, create a new project in Visual Studio by selecting any of the Office add-in project types. Figure 24.5 shows the basic project structure created with a Word add-in project. We have a single code-file that establishes the startup entry point for the add-in, and provides us with the namespaces we need in order to access the Word automation object model.

Figure 24.5 A Microsoft Word 2007 add-in project.

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