| Microsoft Office 2000 Developer | |
The Microsoft Office 2000 Developer CD contains all of the tools and samples needed for a developer to target Office 2000 applications. To access the documentation, you must install the MSDN™ Library as well. For more information, see Installing the MSDN Library.
Note Office 2000 Developer can be installed on a machine that does not contain Office 2000. To use the tools, however, Visual Basic for Applications is required.
The Office 2000 Developer Installation Wizard provides two options:
The following tools are installed as part of the standard Office 2000 Developer tools setup program.
| Tool name | Description |
| Microsoft Data Connectivity Components | Includes the Data Environment Designer, Data Controls, and the Binding Collection Manager. These components are used to connect your projects to external data sources in any VBA host application. |
| Microsoft VBA COM Add-In Designer | A template for creating COM add-ins for Microsoft Office 2000 and other applications which support COM add-ins directly in VBA. |
| Microsoft VBA Developer Add-Ins | Includes add-ins for creating setup programs, Visual SourceSafe integration, and other code management tasks. |
| Microsoft ActiveX® Controls | ActiveX controls that you can use in your forms and reports. |
| Microsoft Graph 9 | Provides design-time and run-time functionality for solutions using graphs. For use by VBA developers creating applications other than Microsoft Office. |
| Microsoft Replication Manager | Provides a visual interface for converting databases, making additional replicas, viewing the relationships between and setting the properties on replicas. In addition, the Replication Manager can replicate data between Microsoft Access databases and Microsoft SQL Server databases. For help, see the Microsoft Replication Manager documentation (Rplman40.hlp in the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Replication Manager 4.0 folder). |
Microsoft Office 2000 Developer contains a number of component applications to help facilitate the development process. Installation of these tools is optional, except for Visual SourceSafe®, which is required by the VBA Source Code Control add-in and the Access Source Code Control add-in.
| Component name | Description |
| Visual SourceSafe 6.0 | Source code control application for use with Office 2000 Visual Basic Editor and Access source code control Add-ins. |
| HTMLHelp Workshop | Tool for developing help for users' in the new Windows standard HTMLHelp format. |
| Answer Wizard Builder | Tool for integrating natural language queries into your Office 2000 applications for custom solution help. |
| Microsoft Agent SDK | Tool for creating and modifying Microsoft Agent characters similar to the Office Assistants. |
Each of these components has its own documentation. For more information about using these components with Office 2000 Developer, see the Rapid Application Development section of this documentation.
The tools installed by Office 2000 Developer will not interfere with those installed by Visual Studio 6.0. These two products share many of the components essential to developing applications.
For more information about using Microsoft Office 2000 Developer tools with Visual Studio, see Enhancements for Visual Studio Users.