Visual Studio 2005 and Office Tools 2005, are really new, still in Beta... There might be a couple of online sites around, in a couple of months there will be plenty

Actually, that MSDN website had a list of good 'hands-on labs' and tutorial. That should be your first port of call.

Have you done some programming before, what types and languages? For most part, the majority of languages are quite similar, especially for Visual GUI in windows/office. Probably the easiest one would be VB .net, as it is simply Drag/Drop controls onto a form and object orientated programming in the form object.method() or object.property.value = XXX etc etc

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

these should give a good starting point, and perhaps link to other good sites. Cheers.