Visual Studio 2015 RC Outlook reference - office-interop

I'm trying to add the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook reference to a project in Visual Studio 2015 RC. But it doesn't appear in my current installed references. I've found some additional installers for Office Developer tools, but these all require Visual Studio 2013 or lower. Has the installer for Visual Studio 2015 been released yet? Or is there any other way to send an e-mail via Outlook in Visual Studio 2015?


I had the same problem and after a search I found the below link:
Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015
I clicked and installed
Go grab the latest version with aka.ms/GetLatestOfficeDevTools.
Now I can see
Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Object Library
Hope it helps.

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I have installed VS 2015 community edition. I am looking forward to develop outlook add-in for outlook 2010 or on wards. I can't find any outlook add-in option in project template of VS. Any help would be highly appreciated.

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How to install Office Developper Tools for VS Community Edition ? (sic)
Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Update3 Community
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Enter Visual Studio .NET 2017 or 2019
2017: Click on "Tools" -> Extension and Updates -> Online
2019: Click on "Extensions" -> Manage Extensions -> Online
Type "Installer Project" on the search box
Click on "Install" in Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects (2017 & 2019)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Installer Projects
if you can jump to VS 2013, 2015, 2017+2019, or 2022
But BozoJoe is right, its time to drop vdproj and move on to WiX.

vdproj is a MSI creation project for Visual Studio. Its been deprecated and most people have moved on to either WIX or NSIS or a professional grade installer creation tools such as Install Shield.
If you do not require an installer for your product just exclude the vdproj project from the solution and continue with your life
for fun if you want to try to transition right away to wix, try this powershell script https://github.com/chrisoldwood/vdproj2wix

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if You use Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project (Vs2017).
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project may be disabled after an update.
Tools -> Extensions and Updates..
Click Installed
Find and Select -> Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
do Enable
Restart Visual Studio

How to Access Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel on Visual studios 2013

I got Visual Studios 2013 from Dreamspark and i need to access the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel namespace but it says it does not exist.
can someone help me find out how i add it. This would be the first time I am adding a library that is not already included with the VS installation.
I really appreciate your help
What i am ultimately trying to do is this
Using LinEst () in .net

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel is an assembly in Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime. Check if you have installed them with Visual Studio.
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When you install Visual Studio 2013.
When you install Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 2010.
When you install the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime redistributable.

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