Hi Rick, At the site below, you can read about all the current versions of visual studio (it's a MS site); it looks like professional is still available for purchase also. Even better though is a link to trial versions of all the various editions, so you could download and test professional to see if it does expose it's object model (just search for the word "trial" to take you to the downloads page). http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions Now that we've got the answer from Doug, you know that scripting it is possible, and I do suspect the object model is available in professional. hth, Chip
_____ From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 4:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Visual Studio 2010 Hi: Visual Studio Express does not expose the COM interface unless you buy the Professional Version. That means no add-ins for the Express nor the Standard Versions as far as I can tell. I ran Jamal's HarvestWindow app and it looks like the MSAA stuff is still there and, if GW has done it all, the UIA stuff should be exposed through their MSAA and other objects from what I understand. I don't know about scripting the WPF objects which are what is used in all the new Microsoft Software and in Visual Studio in particular. Has anyone used a WE Script to do some scripting of the Visual Studio environment and especially the Editors and Designers? What about the WPF stuff? What about interacting with the DOM controls which are actually WPF in nature if I understand what I've read about the new Visual Studio? I am trying to find out if vb.net and vwd 2010 can be scripted without using add-ins as is being done for the VS Professional level, really expensive, software. Well, that's it. Without add-ins it may be a real mess to try and script that battleship but it is what it is. Some day my old machine will have to be replaced and I will be forced into windows 7 or 8 and likely have to install and use the newer Microsoft development software so I am starting to look at what I may have to do to reduce my learning curve when that happens. Rick USA
