At PDC we showed an early alpha build of VSTO v3 that gave attendees an idea of where VSTO v3 is going. Here are some of the early themes of VSTO v3: Works with Office 12 VSTO v3 will target Office 12. We plan to make all the features in VSTO...

From the team that brought you Visual Studio Tools for Office--we announced a new product today called Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is a .NET-based application customization technology designed to...

Well, PDC has started. We had a great pre-conference session on VSTO that was well attended--it was fun to show the almost final builds of VSTO 2005 knowing that we're almost to the end of this long journey to get VSTO 2005 released. I can't wait for...

Check out this cool little post by Paul on how to put a web page into a VSTO 2.0 ActionsPane.

I'm extremely excited to announce that the long awaited book on VSTO that Eric Lippert and I have been working on for the past year is going to launch at PDC. For more information on the book (all 1008 pages of it) see: http://www.awprofessional.com...

If you are lucky enough to be attending PDC, there are going to be lots of VSTO goodies for you to check out. There will be a lot of information on VSTO 2.0 including an entire day preconference on VSTO 2.0 ( PRE10 ). In addition, PDC is the time to announce...