Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is a set of tools that independent software vendors (ISVs) can use to build customization abilities into their applications for both automation and extensibility. VSTA was announced by Microsoft with the release of Visual Studio 2005.

Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is a set of tools that independent software vendors (ISVs) can use to build customization abilities into their applications for both automation and extensibility. Those customization abilities can be used by end-users to tailor the ISV's application within a managed extensibility environment just like VBA.

Visual Studio Tools for Applications was announced by Microsoft with the release of Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is based on the.NET Framework and is built on the same architecture as Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications is based on the.NET 2.0 framework and Visual Studio 2005, while Visual Studio Tools for Applications v 2.0 is based on the.NET 3.5 SP1 framework and Visual Studio 2008. Some of the technology developed for Visual Studio for Application (VSA) was incorporated within Visual Studio Tools for Applications.