Preface
The target audience for Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is the “professional developer.” This term has several meanings, but the most agreed-upon definition we’ve heard is “someone who gets paid to write code.” In other words, it’s his or her primary job. It’s not the departmental developer—say, an accountant who writes Excel macros as part of his accounting tasks or an office worker who customizes Word to increase her productivity. Instead, it is the .NET developer who might be interested in using Microsoft Office as a development platform.
We believe that the traditional Office developer is also interested in VSTO. Before joining Microsoft, both of us worked as VBA developers, customizing Office applications, and we were very ...
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