Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

No matter how your users are going to get the customized documents onto their machines, they will need some prerequisites, as follows:

• Microsoft Office Service Pack One, which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47

• The primary interop assemblies (PIAs), which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0-d36d67e0f4ad

• The .NET Framework 2.0

• The VSTO runtime

Those last two will also be available as stand-alone setup packages, should you want to deploy them. The VSTO runtime redistribution setup package (vstor.exe) is available on the VSTO installation CD-ROM, as is the .NET Framework 2.0 setup package (dotnetfx.exe). The .NET Framework2.0 setup package will also be made available through Windows Update.