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Andrew Whitechapel

Visual Studio, Office and other Nonsense

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Add-ins for Multiple Office Versions without PIAs
In a previous post , I discussed how you could build an add-in for multiple versions of Office, and explained the problems in this approach (and why it is not officially supported). One of the reasons this is not supported is because you end up building Read More...
Ribbon and Task Pane in Access Add-ins
In an earlier post , I looked at how you could morph a VSTO project for one application into a project for another application – specifically, how you could build a VSTO add-in for Access. Note that this is explicitly not supported. However, although Read More...
Low-level support for ICustomTaskPaneConsumer, IRibbonExtensibility, FormRegionStartup, etc.
I’m mostly interested in the runtime aspects of VSTO, and less interested in the RAD design-time aspects (however wonderful they are), and in this post I want to explore some of the low-level infrastructure that the VSTO runtime provides. As a developer Read More...
Synchronizing Ribbon and Task Pane
The new custom task pane model in Office 2007 is interesting. It certainly opens up a wide range of opportunities for providing a better user experience than the doc-level ISmartDocument-based task pane. It’s also interesting in that it provides some Read More...
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