Access 2003 Developer

[Antonio]

I have been using Access consistently for about 4 years now. I read the
description "Build with Access 2003 Developer Extensions" aritcle located in
Microsofts "Office Developer Center" and I was very interested in what was
described. However, when I clicked on the link to the "Visual Studio Tools
for the Microsoft Office System" I was presneted with descriptions of Visual
Studio .Net 2003 and MSDN Subscriptions. When I read them I became a bit
confused and to be honest, with all the different options presented I am not
sure which the best package would be for someone like me who wants to use the
develper tools for Access and nothing else (for the time being). I would
appreciate any info on which package our of MSDN Subscriptions and Visual
Studio would be best for someone wanting to work solely with Access Developer
solutions....
Thanks in Advance.

 

[Fred Boer]

Dear Antonio:

It is no surprise you are confused, there have been a number of changes in
the name Microsoft has given to its "Developer's Edition". The current name
"Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System" is, imho, unintuitive,
unhelpful and, uh.. just really stupid..

It is what you are looking for, however!

These links might help:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionversions.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vsto/default.aspx



HTH
Fred Boer