Re: VSTO Licensing for a VS 2005 Pro User

Maarten,

Thanks for the quick reply. I assume when you say I am right you are
saying that I have the $500 option to upgrade? What does the "upgrade"
from Pro to VSTO add to Pro? I am already set with Office 2003
Professional and a separate SKU for InfoPath 2003.

Rich

Maarten van Stam [MVP VSTO] wrote:
You are right, you have the options to upgrade to the VSTO edition or the
Team System edition in order to build VSTO applications.

Remember BTW the office 2003 requirements:

. Microsoft Office 2003, Professional Edition
. Microsoft Office 2003, Professional Edition with InfoPath
. Microsoft Word 2003
. Microsoft Excel 2003
. Microsoft InfoPath 2003
. Microsoft Outlook 2003
The last four are the separate boxed SKU's.

Standard Edition is not supported... to inform other readers, the
requirements can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/vsto/details/default.aspx

-= Maarten=-
MVP - Visual Developer - VSTO
http://blogs.officezealot.com/maarten

<rmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1152848375.553951.181400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I suspect that this question has been asked many times, but I have
searched everywhere I know for a definitive answer (short of actually
contact MS ;-) ). I have VS 2005 Pro, and I have the need to develop
an Office 2003-based solution. I believe VSTO 2005 would fit the bill
perfectly, but my problem is identifying a product to buy. I am an
independent developer, so I have no access to MSDN subscriptions. The
only pricing that I can seem to find is ~$500 to "upgrade" to VSTO from
VS 2005 Pro. Why in the world would I need to pay that when I already
have the IDE, compilers, etc., in VS 2005 Pro? Is there a shorter and
less costly approach to "adding" the Office tools to my existing Pro
license? It seems like it would only mean adding some project types,
documentation and interop assemblies.

Thanks for any feedback from those of you "in the know" on this.

Rich


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