VS2010 for Office Development

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional however it seems as though I cannot open/create Office Projects.

I assumed there must have been something wrong with my install and a feature wasn't added. However whenever I go into my Maintenance Mode for my VS2010 nothing about Office appears. And it does say Professional, which I believe comes with office tools.

I do have Office 2010 also installed.

I've looked around and everywhere says that I can just add that feature, but I only get a number of features in my install; VB, C++. C# (plus X64 Compilers and Tools), Visual Web Developer and Graphics Library, all of which are tickets.

Any tips?

p.s. I do also have SP1

Answer 1

For anyone else that may encounter this problem, you may need to reinstall SP1 as well as Visual Studio. This is what did it for me.

Answer 2

VSTO is what you're looking for.

Try one of the walkthrough articles to get started.