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Add-in Express 2007 for VSTO is the first toolkit on the development components market that provides visual designers for application-level customization and enhancement of the Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003 on Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005.

It gives VSTO developers a solution allowing them to do far less coding and debugging than they have to do now. Being completely based on the VSTO run-time, Add-in Express 2007 extends the VSTO programming model with several time-saving visual designers and components.

Using the designers Office developers customize the Ribbon UI for their Office 2007 plug-ins, add elements to Ribbon tabs, the Quick Access Toolbar and Office Menu and validate the resulting Ribbon XML in no time. The traditional Office 2003 GUI is supported by the Add-in Express designers as well.

Add-in Express provides special components for creating custom task panes, application-level keyboard shortcuts, custom .NET controls, advanced regions, extended Outlook customization, etc. It completely supports application-level add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, and works for Visual Basic .NET and C#.

http://www.add-in-express.com/add-in-vsto/