VSTO, Outlook add-ins, and Visual Studio 2015

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toddwseattle picture toddwseattle · Jul 22, 2015 · Viewed 19.4k times · Source

Starting with Visual Studio RC, Visual Studio 2015 appears to no longer support the Office Add-In project types from Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Lots of googlin' and questions to PMs in the MS blogs have revealed no useful information; but perhaps other in the community know more. Opening a VSTO project yield "(incompatible)". so:

  1. what is the status of VSTO and Visual Studio 2015
  2. Is there a workaround to open the old project types in VS 2015

I don't have 2013 anymore because i wiped that machine...

Answer

Eugene Astafiev picture Eugene Astafiev · Jul 22, 2015

Do you have the Community edition of VS installed?

Try to install https://aka.ms/getlatestofficedevtools .

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