I have had the question posed to me twice in the last week: If I am automating Outlook from another application, how do I get a reference to an Outlook COM Add-in created with VSTO 2005? I responded to a customer, and then I answered it in our forums...

We had a question in the VSTO Forums about hosting Word on a winform in .NET . I thought I would give some broader detail, just because I'm in the mood. Here's the deal: hosting Word (or really any other Office app) on a winform is different from automating...

I've been working with Windows Workflow Foundation while listening to the Smashing Pumpkins 'Earphoria' tracks. I just finished Geek USA. Crazy great rock and roll. Anyway, I am intrigued by the Activities Gallery on the site. By now, most people know...

I think I am going to more frequently call out people who amaze the heck out of me. The biggest risk is that I mention someone and not someone else, and then there is unrest among MVPs and community leaders for Microsoft. But, I am going to take the...

In one of my articles, Creating an Outlook Task Add-in Solution with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office , I show how to assemble a WordML document in code. When assembling the document, I embed some pictures. But, I what if you want to make sure the...

We are pushing more, and more, and more content about VSTO all of time. We just had one go live that pertains mostly to using ServerDocument in your solutions. Jason De Lorme and Lori Turner are rolling and showing some serious flex with a new article...

Before becoming a Program Manager for Visual Studio Tools for Office I was the site manager for the MSDN Office Developer Center . That meant that any developer content that was Microsoft Office branded went through my inbox before it went live. Fortunately...

OK– I’m down to having only 12 IE windows open. After this post, there will be only 11. Many of our VSTO examples are in C#. There are plenty of examples in VB.NET as well. Frankly, I don’t give a fig which one people want to use...

I was answering another question in our forum , and a user was creating a wicked add-in with our great VSTO Outlook add-in support, but ran into trouble when trying to cast an email returned from a collection into a MailItem instance. However, this cast...

I was answering a user’s question in our VSTO Forum, and I used data from this KB: How to use startup command line switches to start Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000 It includes a description of startup switches not included in the Word help...

I have a load of IE windows open on my desktop with data I wanted to blog about, so I have several entries ready for today. Here’s number two: A common problem people have had in their COM Interop applications in .NET is that some events in the wrapped...

One of our Office MVPs has a site called "Serenity Macros". Candidly speaking, much of the content is very dated (fyi: the best patch for Windows 98 is Windows XP). But, there is a great page containing the most comprehensive list of Word shortcuts I...

learn how to use Windows installer to create custom deployment setups for Visual Studio Tools for Office....