Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)

What is Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)

VSTA is a .NET-based application customization technology designed to be embedded into applications to enable developers to create custom experiences on top of those applications. VSTA enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide extensible software solutions with a minimum of effort.

VSTA consists of an IDE used by ISVs to build VSTA support into an object model they can expose in their application, a runtime engine, and an end-user IDE which communicates with the object model. VSTA fully supports the .NET Framework, including the VB .NET and C# programming languages. VSTA includes a software development kit (SDK) for integrating a customer interface object model into the ISV application and an end-user IDE incorporating VB .NET and C#. The application then uses the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) for development and production.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications

ArtinSoft and Summit Software Announce Agreement to Provide VSTA Migration Services to VBA Partners

ArtinSoft and Summit Software announced an agreement to provide ArtinSoft’s migration technology and expertise to ISVs who have integrated Microsoft VBA into their products. By entering into this agreement, ArtinSoft and Summit will work together to market, sell and deliver migration solutions to independent software vendors (ISVs) who have integrated Microsoft VBA into their applications and choose to integrate Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) into their .NET Framework-based applications.

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