Visual Studio For Applications IDE Hunt
I am very interested in the Visual Studio for Applications for incorporation into my company's suite of applications, however, my search for information has turned up the following information:
1. VSA is in the standard .NET Framework installation
2. In it's beta there was talk of a VSA IDE instead of rolling your own script editor
3. That was given up on.
4. Other information turned up that the IDE does exist, just in third-party form (Summit Software)
5. Looked on their website and couldn't find references to it. Maybe I'm just not asking the right questions or looking in the right places, but I got pointed back to Microsoft.
6. Here I art, none the wiser and much the more fatigued from this snipe hunt.
So could someone please let me in on whether this IDE exists and from whom/where I might acquire it?
If it doesn't exist in any form, is there any talk of deployable IDEs in the upcoming VS 2K5 release? I couldn't imagine sending out a text dialog as the script editor, nor could I imagine it would be cost effective to write our own script editor.
Long story short: Any information appreciated regarding existence/whereabouts of VSA IDE.
Thank you in advance.
[1212 byte] By [
ChuckS.] at [2007-12-16]
Hi Chuck,
VSTA does contain a redistributatble IDE based on Visual Studio 2005. The VSTA IDE will be installed and launched by the host application (ALT-F11 style). We have not released bits publicly yet. VSTA will be distributed as part of the VS SDK (formally VSIP SDK). The VS SDK will be released on a regular schedule. We are currently looking at the timing of the Beta release of VSTA in the VS SDK. VSTA is scheduled to release around the Office 12 timeframe.
Paul Stubbs
Program Manager - VSTA
http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs
hi,
I am currently evaluating VSA to implement scripting support in the apps I develop. From your post I came to know that VSA namespace will be deprecated in VS2005.
Could you please answer these questions:
1. When will VSTA SDK be available for download (MSDN subscription).
2. Apart from MSDN subscription is there any other way to get a copy of VSTA SDK
3. I read somewhere that VSTA SDK will be available only in 2006. Is that true? If so, will it be a good idea to continue with VSA?
4. If I am continuing with VSA, does VSA contain the VS IDE? I mean would it be possible for end users to invoke the IDE using something like ALT-F11 ?
thanks in advance
Seshagiri
