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Which IDE should I use for developing custom code for InfoPath Forms, VSTA or VSTO?

I am new to developing for Office Forms Server / MOSS 2007. I have to choose between designing my web-based forms and writing code for them in Visual Studio Tools for Applications (aka VSTA) or Visual Studio Tools for Office (aka VSTO). VSTA is included free as part of the license for InfoPath 2007; VSTO, also free, requires Visual Stu...

Use VBA in Office 2007 Applications?

Is VBA going to go away any time soon, like VB6 has? Should I not develop new Office applications with VBA? Or should I be developing all new Office Apps with VSTO? Update: Recently read this article. ...

Is Visual Studio Tools for Applications part of Office 2007?

The VSTO bit I understand. Visual Studio has the project templates to get you started with creating nice .NET based add-ins. But where is VSTA? I installed the SDK but it seems to be gears towards adding extensibility to your own applications. I had thought that VSTA was like the new VBA for Office 2007. Infopath 2007 seems to be VST...

InfoPath add-in help - Saving a copy of the active form template, showing custom button in design mode, calling method in form solution

I'm trying to build an InfoPath add-in to allow template editors (as opposed to end users) to preview the form with sample data populated. First, a little background on our environment. We have a custom process that connects to MOSS, downloads the appropriate datasource assemblies for a given form, and invokes them to load data from th...

InfoPath code behind won't build in x64

I've just moved to an x64 Server 2008 R2 based development machine for my SharePoint goings on. I've discovered that when calling the SharePoint object model SPSite constructer that I get back a FileNotFoundException but no more detail on what exactly caused it. After a little playing around I then found that the call in other bits of co...

If I move a form with VSTA code-behind into Visual Studio, will end users require the VSTO runtime?

I have an existing InfoPath 2007 form that has some code-behind developed with VSTA. It has been deployed to SharePoint as an administrator-approved form but is not browser based - the InfoPath client opens when users fill in a new form. I'd now like to follow How to: Migrate a Project Created in Visual Studio Tools for Applications to ...