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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
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:09 PM

Open XML Links - catching up.

I'm catching up with a bunch of Open XML blogging from ages ago, so apologies if some of these are old news to you. Binary Format Documentation Released Under the OSP and Binary to OOXML Translator Project Brian Jones has blogged about the great news
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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, April 29, 2008 7:05 PM

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released

During my Windows Development session at the Heroes Happen { 2008 } launch shows around the country, I said that there was feature pack coming "soon" that would enhance VC++ 2008. Well, "soon" has arrived. I got a note in my inbox
Posted by acoat | 1 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 22, 2008 2:15 PM

Want to stay connected to the Aussie DPE Team?

I was chatting with Darren the other day and he said that he's been feeling increasingly disconnected from the DPE team here in Australia since Frank left, and also now that Chuck 's gone. Putting aside the fact that they're impossible shoes to fill,
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
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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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 4:50 PM

DotNet-U: Great training you can take and give

We had the pleasure last week of hosting Doug Turnure , the Developer Evangelist from Atlanta, Georgia. Doug and I started at Microsoft around the same time (I think he pre-dates me by about 6 months) and we've corresponded a few times but this was the
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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
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:40 PM

Windows Embedded Retail Seminars - Sydney and Melbourne

Don Kerr just sent this through (he, Nelson Lin and and Dave Glover are presenting): Get the competitive edge with Windows Embedded in retail Discover the latest end-to-end solutions for retail at the Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) Seminar.
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