Visual Studio VSTO or Professional dilemma

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I'm having a little trouble figuring this out. I just want to make
sure I have it clear. I want to purchase Visual Studio Professional
because a majority of my development is not office related. However I
have been doing some office development and would like to take
advantage of VSTO. The only way for me to get VSTO is by purchasing
Visual Studio - Visual Studio Tools for Office or getting MSDN
premium. The first option is not good for me because as previously
stated most of my development is not office related. The second option
costs about 2K. This would quadruple my costs (upgrade of visual
studio professional costs $500 or so). I understand MSDN give you a
bunch of extra features but I'm not really looking to take advantage
of them right now. I guess the third option is to buy VS pro upgrade
and VSTO ($1,200) but that seems a little silly.

I am interested in 2005 development and will need to upgrade soon but I
have been pushing off this decision for a while now because of this
issue. I probably will get VS - Pro and continue doing office
development the way I am currently. I guess the whole thing did not
make much sense to me. I would purchase an VSTO addin for my VS Pro if
they offered it. I have Office pro and will have VS pro, why not make
it easy for me to develop office applications and encourage their use?
It all seems very un-Microsoft to me.

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