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There are some great VSTO community activities going on in Vienna.  Office Community Day is being held on May 8th in Vienna and is free.  They will be covering: Introduction to VSTO OpenXML Deployment in VSTO SharePoint Workflows and more. ...

New in Word 2007, content controls can be inserted into a document to provide more structure and control—for example when you have a section of the document that you want to allow the user to put a picture into or pick a value from a drop-down list. There...

There a lot of changes between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for developers.  Here are some highlights that I found interesting in the object model.  Note that you should use the trick I blog about in this post for more detailed comparisons . ...

It is instructive to compare code from the previous edition of my book to see what changed between Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 as well as the changes to the add-in model between VSTO 2.0 and VSTO 3.0.   This is a VSTO Outlook add-in that handles...

The C# code listings for the VSTO 2007 book are attached to this post. I will also get them posted to the book site in the next several days. Enjoy!

One common pattern of Office development is the Office Automation Executable—a console or windows forms application that starts up an Office application and talks to it.  Sometimes you won’t want to start a new instance of an Office application but...

With VSTO 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008, there are a lot of new features and it can be a bit of a challenge to keep track of what’s enabled for what application. The table below comes from my new book and shows the Office 2007 applications that are supported...

I stumbled upon a couple of good posts about getting VSTO projects to build on a continuous integration machine that doesn’t have Visual Studio installed on it. Unfortunately we do not make this very easy to do, but these bloggers provide some help: Rinat...

I’m excited to announce that I have completed a new book on VSTO 2008 and Office 2007 that is hot off the presses.  I just got a copy in the mail and as my editor said, it’s a “big baby”, 1055 pages of VSTO 3.0 goodness. This book was an interesting...