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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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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
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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
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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 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 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
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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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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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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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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:43 PM

Office DevCon in Sydney November 3-4 - Will you be there?

Long-time MVP Graham Seach is organising an Office CodeCamp-style DevCon to be held here at the MS Offices in Sydney over the weekend of November 3-4 (that's closer than you think!). It will most likely be a free event and Graham is looking for expressions
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:35 AM

OpenXML Explained Book - Hard Copy and Online

I've been talking about VSTO v3 and OBA in my TechEd sessions in Australia and New Zealand, but there have also been lots of questions about OpenXML. Wouter Van Vugt has written a great book called OpenXML Explained and I've been giving out copies in
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