Visual Studio Tools for Applications

Hello,
I used to custom-code InfoPath forms (2013) using Visual Studio 2012 and recently upgraded to VS Express 2013 with the VSTA update. When clicking the Code Editor in InfoPath Designer, I'm prompted to install Visual Studio 2012, VSTA and C# Support.
When I create a new project to see if the Tools for Apps projects has been installed, I find nothing has changed.
Why isn't the VSTA update working, unless it's only for Premium and higher editions?
Thanks in advance.

Actually my bad. It turns out it only works with Professional, Premium and Ultimate.
Thanks.

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Welcome to the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) forum!

Welcome to the VSTA forum!
Use this forum to ask questions and comment about VSTA integration with your product and building VSTA applications.
The latest version of VSTA can be found through the links below:
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Thank you!
Xiaoying is a program manager in Microsoft Visual Studio Office Developer Tools team | This post is provided "as-is"

We want to provide customization of our applications (C++ and .Net C# both). Evaluating VSTA, it looks like a good fit, but really not good enough examples and documentation.
I have few questions or concerns -
1. What are the differences/similarities with VSTA 2.0, Can we try or use VSTA 2.0 examples to understand VSTA 2012?
2. Can we have some detail example for VSTA 2012 like the ones provided with VSTA 2.0 (e.g. - shapeApp samples which by the way no longer available for downloading!!! ).
3. The given documentation ("VSTA Sample Host Integration.docx") and example only illustrates the part which loads Visual Studio, creates, saves, compiles and runs a template project on C#.
4. No documentation available on how to work with VB projects/scripts in VSTA 2012.
5. Document tells nothing about how to provide host application's APIs for customization or overwrite any host object by scripting. In VSTA 2.0 I think there was a concept of Proxy classes, do we have similar concept
here too?
6. Debugging part is also not complete in the documentation. Starting the external process and running the Addin is not clear.
Please provide more elaborate documentation if possible. Thanks!
Hi Xiaoying,
Could you answer on questions above?

I get error when clicking on Code Editor after I install Install Visual Studio 2012 with the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 add-on.

Hi,
I have ultimate VS 2012. Following direction here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee526362(v=office.15).aspx
I installed this, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38807
Now all my infopath form when I click on Code Editor or On-load-Event.... the all give me error saying "infopath has encountered an error. The operation failed"
What is going on? How can I fix this?
p.s. I'm using C# as the language choice
thank you.

I suspect you're running into a similar issue: http://www.sbrickey.com/Tech/Blog/Post/Office_2013_InfoPath_2010_Forms
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Hi Samseth,
Yes, correct, the only thing we can find on the MSDN is:
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And that's the reason why Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova existing.
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Hi David,
I am sorry that I can't reproduce your issue on my machine. I can't set the shared folder path (\\DEVELOPMENT) as local path, but I can set D:\folder which maps to the
\\DEVELOPMENT path as the local path.
Maybe you can submit one feedback on the Microsoft Connect site here above your issue:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/CreateFeedbackForm.aspx?FeedbackFormConfigurationID=5303&FeedbackType=1
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Known Issue: How to Install Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows App Development (Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK and tools, April 2015 release)

The Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows App Development are not installed by default. If they are not installed, in the New Project dialog in Visual Studio 2015, you will see only a template “Download Windows Universal Tools”.
For additional known issues with using Visual Studio 2015 RC, see
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3025133/

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Hi ryguy72,
The issue occurs because the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) design-time or runtime is not installed properly. This can be caused by the install order of the SSDT and SQL Server 2012 Integration Services service. Please open the Programs
and Features window, and check which of the following components are not installed (supposing it is a 64-bit SQL Server platform):
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications x86 Runtime 3.0
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications x64 Runtime 3.0
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications Design-Time 3.0
The Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications Design-Time 3.0 component should be missing in your environment. Then, install the correct Design-time or Runtime component from the \redist\VSTA\designtime\ or \redist\VSTA\runtime\ folder of the SQL Server
2012 install media.
Reference:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/776248/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-visualstudio-tools-applications-core
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