Mini-Guide: Visual Studio Tools for Applications

	FEATURED ARTICLE: VSTA to support macro recordings but will work with .NET objects
	At the Professional Developers Conference 2005, Microsoft continued to expand its array of Office tools with the surprise announcement of Visual Studio Tools for Applications, or VSTA. The tool has many similarities to Microsoft's Visual Studio Tools for Office product, but VSTA is aimed at independent software vendors (ISVs). Read the article here

	Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications CTP (KD Hallman)
	Getting started with VSTA (Norm Estabrook)
	Commentary: VSTA is not VBA's replacement (yet) (Ty Anderson)
	The VSTA blog (MSDN)
	VSTA: What is an add-in? (Paul Stubbs)
	External Process Debugging in VSTA (Jackson Davis)
	PDC05 Webcast: Building Customizable Applications with VSTA (MSDN)
	PDC05 Webcast: The Managed Add-in Framework and VSTA (MSDN)
	ISV Touchdown Web Seminar: Overview of VSTA (Microsoft)
	Podcast: Interview with Eric Schnepp about VSTA (Microsoft)
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