Office 2003: Bring the Power of Visual Studio .NET to Business Solutions Built with Microsoft Office

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System is a new technology that brings the advanced features of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to applications built for Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. Deploying solutions built with this technology requires that you understand how runtime security is enforced in managed applications and how to configure users' systems to run your solutions without introducing security holes.To promote that understanding, this article will demonstrate how to establish trust, explain policy considerations and permissions, and explain what trusted code is all about. Secure assembly deployment is also covered in detail.

Brian A. Randell and Ken Getz

MSDN Magazine March 2004

With custom form regions in Outlook you can pull in data from designated data sources and truly customize your users' Outlook 2007 experience.

Steve Fox

MSDN Magazine Launch 2008

Thanks to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Windows Forms controls can be bound to databases, Web services, or objects and added to a workbook or document. Find out how.

Eric Carter and Eric Lippert

MSDN Magazine March 2006

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 supported only Microsoft Word and Excel. The new version, however, has the tools you need to create managed code add-ins for Outlook 2003.

John R. Durant

MSDN Magazine March 2006

Aaron Skonnard

MSDN Magazine November 2003

Over the years, we've celebrated a lot of anniversaries in this column. Who can forget our "Ten Years of ENIAC!" Editor's Note back in June 1957? Or the "How Far We've Come: Five Years of the Altair 8800" issue back in January 1980? Or even the "Macintosh Interface: 15 Years Without an Update" Editor's Note page just four years ago?.

MSDN Magazine May 2003