Book excerpt: Learn to build custom Office applications with this new Microsoft development tool Designed to attract both VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and Visual Studio developers, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is a Visual Studio add-in that makes it easy to create custom Office applications. This book shows developers step by step how to work with VSTO tools to create real-world applications for Word, Outlook, and Excel. VSTO enables developers to easily create custom applications for Microsoft Office In the fun and friendly For Dummies style, this book explains how to build effective user interfaces and integrate VSTO applications with Sharepoint and other Microsoft server products All code is presented in Visual Basic, making the book accessible to both VB and VBA programmers VSTO For Dummies will get you up and running with this exciting technology quickly and easily.