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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System is a new technology that brings the power and productivity of Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework to business solutions built on the next versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. With this technology, developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 can use Microsoft Visual Basic?? .NET and Microsoft Visual C#?? .NET to write code behind Microsoft Office Word- and Microsoft Office Excel-based applications. Businesses and developers have long benefited from the ability to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to customize Microsoft Office applications and integrate them with existing data and systems. While VBA continues to be an important part of Office development (and benefits from the new features of Microsoft Office 2003), Visual Studio Tools for Office will provide significant advances in the areas of language choice and innovation, security, deployment, and the integrated development environment (IDE). Developers want to