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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:04 PM

Deploying VSTO 3 solutions

While the default mechanism for deploying VSTO v3 Add-Ins is ClickOnce, there there's now also a documented way to deliver VSTO solutions via an MSI installer. By extension, this should mean you can push it out via group policy (or SMS or whatever). Mary
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:47 PM

More Office Developer Documentation

She's indefatigable! Erika Ehrli keeps posting these gems. Hot on the heels of my post about Office Object Model References , I discovered two great posts from her. Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2! ; and Open XML Format
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Friday, May 09, 2008 6:48 PM

VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products

Anyone who's been to any of my recent presentations knows that I'm a passionate advocate of developing on the Office platform . The release of VSTO v3 with VS2008 was a big step forward in making Office development a truly first-class .NET development
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified

Still catching up on my blogging, so this one's a little old. The irrepressible Trika blogged about the VS2008 series of certifications and included a bunch of different paths through the tracks based on your current certification status. There's also
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Saturday, April 26, 2008 3:04 PM

Times Reader SDK Released

Yeah, I know I'm about 3 months late with this, but I'm coming out of the tunnel (between here and here ). Frank blogged it (of course) as did Tim Sneath (and probably 100s of others). I've been using the New York Times reader as a great example of a
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:58 PM

Holiday Toys from the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team

Especially now that Ken 's on the team , I have a real interest in the cool stuff people do by extending the Visual Studio shell . I got this note just before the holidays and have had it tagged "Blog This" for the last few weeks. Check it! Today there
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:46 PM

More VSTS2008 Virtual Images on MSDN

Matt Nunn sent this round recently - a couple of additions to the many Virtual Images you can download and just start using. I would like to announce that just prior to the holiday season we posted new public VSTS 2008 VPC Images. There are 2 versions
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:41 PM

There's now a VSTO v3 Team Blog

And it's where the VSTO2003 blog used to be :). Christin Boyd has posted a welcome message and that's all that's there so far, but with the likes of Misha Shneerson , John R. Durant , Eric Carter and Thomas Quinn contributing as well, there are sure to
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:22 PM

Another Aussie Success Story - Elcom's gone all 2008 on us

Another place heroes happen ... Craig 's finally announced the results of his labour over the past little while. Elcom , one of Australia's leading Content Management providers, have switched entirely across to the new wave of products Windows Server
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:02 AM

Lots of Pre-Configured Virtual Machines for You to Use

Continuing the trend of making it easy to get your hands on a pre-configured environment to help evaluate and learn the new stuff, there are a number of great (and I mean this in several senses of the word) downloads available for you to grab and fire
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:02 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings on Channel 9

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. Last week
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:48 PM

VS2008 Certification Live Meeting - 24 Jan 2008

Via the irrepressible Trika : Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification team to find out what is new, and what you need to know, for your next step in developer certification. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:47 PM

New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs

Back in June and July, I did a series of posts about the great Virtual Labs that are available for you to jump right into with no download and no configuration requirements. I posted about labs for: Business Intelligence Microsoft Search Solutions for
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:56 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 Namespaces Poster Available

This just in from Paul Andrew . We just completed the .NET Framework 3.5 update to the Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster. Here's a link to the file (PDF, XPS and 16-page XPS) if you want to grab it now and be the first on your block to get it
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:54 AM

Searching for Contacts in VSTO

I LOVE VSTO v3! As part of my demos for Graham Seach's Office DevCon , I've developed a VSTO v3 Outlook Add-in that adds a form region to an incoming e-mail if: The sender is in my contacts (based on the e-mail address); and The contact has a non-null,
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