I'm at one of those points where I want to jump up and down, scream, rant and rave all while shaking my fist at the sky cursing Microsoft.
All I'd like to do is something that I thought would be simple. I came across a couple great articles on how to use Visual Studio Tools 2003 for Office to integrate .net with Office applications such as Excel.
It took me an hour of hunting, however, to discover that apparently those tools are only downloadable via an MSDN subscription. Thanks Microsoft, for not mentioning this on the Visual Studio Tools for Office website.
So what do I do? Well I go to MSDN, and after another 45 min of searching, I still can't find where to download it from.
Could someone please save me from the misery that is Microsoft's incomptence at making things easy and please provide me with a link of where I could download this?
Brief update:
I finally found it. I'd like to suggest to Microsoft, if they ever read this, that it is absolutely useless to have to look through every language version of a product when going through the subscriber details on the MSDN subscriber download site. Here's a thought: How about you provide a filter to select the language you want rather then sift through 500 results of every language known to man?
Another update:
Now I'm having difficulties actually downloading it! Every time I click on the link, that stupid gold confirmation bar comes up asking that I install Microsoft File Transfer Manager 5.0 ActiveX plugin, however, when I click install, it jumps away from the page and ends up doing nothing! - I hate Microsoft sometimes.
So, if it won't download without that plugin, and I've googled the plugin and can't find where to download it independently - now what do I do?