Microsoft to launch Visual Studio tools for Office next week
crn.com | at | by Mike
The big build up to the Microsoft Office 2003 launch will continue next week with the official debut of Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. The toolset, in beta test since last spring, will take it's official bow at the VS Connections Conference in Palm Springs next week, Microsoft sources confirmed. The goal of this software is to bridge the gap between developing desktop applications atop Office technologies and for Windows, Microsoft has said.
With this wave of products, Microsoft hopes to win over not just corporate users and consumers, but ISVs and developers who can use InfoPath technology, for example, to forge links between desktop and back-office applications. The Visual Studio For Office Tools also target this constituency.