Is it possible to script After Effects with Visual Studio?

It's fairly easy to do with Illustrator, but I can't seem to find any documentation about how to do it with After Effects.
With Illustrator, I can simply import the ScriptingSupport.aip to Visual Studio as a reference and have full c# access.
Can't seem to find the equivalent in After Effects.
If that doesn't exist, is there a way to kick off an AE script from c#?

The AE scripting host only works with AE running. It doesn't even work with just hooking up to ESTK. You realyl need to run the AE process one way or another. Of course scripts can be invoked by triggering teh respective menu commands or providing them as commandline parameters then, but that very much is the long and short of it. Generally one would rather run a plug-in or script panel from within AE and connect to the external processes...
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