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Here's a tip--to get Ribbon XML Intellisense working in VSTO 2005 SE, copy the file \program files\microsoft visual studio 8\Xml\Schemas\1033\CustomUI.xsd to the folder C:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\Xml\Schemas\ Happy Ribbon Hacking...

KD Hallman, general manager of my team, announced today the availability of Visual Studio Tools for Applications--a "modern, scalable, and more secure version of VBA". I quote her forum post below: I am excited to announce that Visual Studio Tools...

So it seems like I'm continually doing a VSTO demo in Excel where I add a data source (Northwind usually) and show how you can drag and drop from the data sources window into an Excel spreadsheet to show a customer and the orders a customer has made....

Here's a video I taped at TechEd about VSTO 2005 SE for the "Virtual Side"--a kind of channel9 style video series they're doing here in Barcelona. http://www.mseventseurope.com/Teched/06/Pre/Live/VideoDev5.aspx

Mario Szpuszta showed a cool demo yesterday with WPF controls inside a VSTO 2005 ActionsPane for a Excel document. I was inspired by his presentation to go figure out how to display a WPF control in a CustomTaskPane for a VSTO 2005 SE Add-in project....

Just came from Eric Rudder's keynote. Office & VSTO were featured in the main keynote demo. Eric Rudder announced the availability of VSTO 2005 SE for download now! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86CAB3-6FD6-4955...

So I'm heading out to TechEd in Barcelona tomorrow. We will be launching VSTO 2005 SE there and I'll try to blog while I'm there. I'm participating in 3 sessions listed below. Also, I think I just did the most geeky thing I've done for a while in...