Where are the Document-Level Templates in VSTO 2005 SE?

Once in a while I get the remark that there are no document-level templates available in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 SE (VSTO 2005 SE). Typically people that used to work with Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 are worried since they can't find their beloved templates for creating Word documents, Word templates and so on in Visual Studio. Actually the download page for VSTO 2005 SE gives the answer/solution:

Note that if you install on top of Visual Studio 2005 Professional, no document-level customizations or other functionality that is part of the full version of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (VSTO 2005) is installed. VSTO 2005 SE adds only the application-level features listed in the feature highlights section above. If you install on top of one of the Visual Studio Team editions or Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, you will have VSTO 2005 project types available side by side with VSTO 2005 SE projects.

To summarize: if you install VSTO 2005 SE on top of a clean VS 2005 Professional, you won't have the document-level templates. If you want to have them you need to have VS 2005 Team Suite/Team Edition or you need to install the previous version of VSTO: VSTO 2005. So VS 2005 Professional + VSTO 2005 + VSTO 2005 SE will give you the document-level templates!

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