What's currently the best way to extend Excel using C#?

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I have the professional versions of VS2008 & VS2010.

I wish to add a couple buttons to a toolbar in Excel. When they are clicked I'd like to be able to open a form (either WinForms or WPF is fine) collect a few values from the user in the form and then take that data + read cell values from the current worksheet to perform some database operations.

What's currently the best way to do this using C#? I'd greatly appreciate a pointer to any examples / tutorials. My understanding is that VS2010 has improved the process alot but I may have to deal w/ Excel 2003 which I don't think it supports.

I get confused between Visual Studio 2008s Extensibility->Shared Addin template and other Office Addin templates I've seen. I'm not sure when which type of solution is appropriate.

I'm new to Office development so I'd really appreciate any help to get me going on the right track.

Thanks much.

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