Unavailable Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System brings the power and productivity of Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework to business solutions built on Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. With this technology, developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 can use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET to write code behind Word- and Excel-based applications.Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System is a new technology that brings the power and productivity of Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework to business solutions built on the next versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. With this technology, developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 can use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET to write code behind Microsoft Office Word- and Microsoft Office Excel-based applications. Businesses and developers have long benefited from the ability to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to customize Microsoft Office applications and integrate them with existing data and systems. While VBA continues to be an important part of Office development (and benefits from the new features of Microsoft Office 2003), Visual Studio Tools for Office will provide significant advances in the areas of language choice and innovation, security, deployment, and the integrated development environment (IDE).

Access the Word 2003 spelling checker by invoking the built-in collection of Dialog objects in Word 2003

Create customized documents based on Microsoft SQL Server data in code by taking advantage of bookmarks in a Word 2003 document or template.

Create charts based on data from Microsoft SQL Server, using the Excel object model and code written in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET or Microsoft Visual C#.

Office CommandBar objects provide a way to hook custom code to menu items and toolbar buttons

Integrate managed code with events raised by Excel 2003 obje