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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:54 PM

Unable to customise context menus in PowerPoint 2007?

I got this question from one of our partners yesterday. The application developed by my client is an add-in for PowerPoint. One of the features it provides involves adding custom items to the context menu of shapes and pictures using the Office object
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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
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 8:18 PM

Office Object Model References on MSDN

On an internal alias, I recently got asked a question that had come from a customer: "I wouldn't have harassed you like this, except that I've done heaps of searching and can't locate what I need. My company has a new CIO, a consequence of which
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
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, 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
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
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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Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:23 PM

Still doing Office 2003 Development? We've got you covered.

While I love talking about the great developer experience in Office 2007 and VSTO v3, I acknowledge that there are plenty of developers who are constrained by their corporate SOE to targeting Office 2003. Even though we've been concentrating on the new
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
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
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:20 AM

S+S Blueprint for Outlook

From Khawar Ahmed on the OBA Blog : One of the OBA related news at TechEd Developer Barcelona was about the availability of S+S BluePrints. These are open source frameworks designed to make it easier to build S+S applications. These frameworks include
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:03 PM

.NET and VBA Interop

I got a nice note from Joe Hanna of vantage IT today following my presentation at the Office DevCon last weekend. In case you were interested, I thought I might let you know the results of attempting to build a .NET User Control and consuming it in a
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
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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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:39 PM

Office DevCons - Sydney (November 3-4) and San Jose (February 10-13)

As I posted previously , Grahame Seach is pulling together the community Office DevCon in Sydney this November (3-4). The website is now live with the list of 29 sessions and speakers, information about the conference and the facilities, as well as a
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:14 PM

OpenXMLDeveloper.org - for all your OpenXML Development Needs

As you might expect, there's been a bit of discussion on the internal aliases about the results of ISO ballot DIS29500 . Kleefy asked me about resources for developers wanting to write apps that read and/or write the new formats regardless of the programming
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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:50 PM

Generating OpenXML Documents on the Server

Via Doug . One of the great features of the New OpenXML file formats used by Office 2007 is their server-side programmability (creation, interrogation, updating etc). Erika Ehrli has a great post on Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions .
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