Does Visual Studio Tools for Office require Office to be installed?

D开发者_开发技巧oes Visual Studio Tools for Office require Office to be installed in order to work with excel files?

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From the MSDN

The Microsoft Office primary interop assemblies must be installed into the global assembly cache (GAC) and registered before you can create or run a Visual Studio Tools for Office solution. You can then write managed code to interact with a Microsoft Office application's COM-based object model. For more information, see How to: Install Office Primary Interop Assemblies.

This second link states:

You can install the complete set of primary interop assemblies in the global assembly cache in two ways:

• Perform a Complete installation of Microsoft Office.
• Install them from the redistributable primary interop assemblies package.

This redistributable can be downloaded from here

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The System Requirements say the following:

Version of Microsoft Office: Developing and running Office customizations built with VSTO 2005 or VSTO 2005 SE requires at least one of the following versions of Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
• Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 (only application-level add-ins work with Standard Edition)
• Microsoft Word 2003
• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Microsoft InfoPath 2003
• Microsoft Outlook 2003
• Microsoft Office Visio 2003
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
• 2007 Microsoft Office system
• Microsoft Office Word 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007