Paul Ballard gave an excellent session at Tech Ed on Creating and Using Outlook Add-ins in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. This did not cover "Cypress" add-ins for Outlook 2007, but rather the add-ins you can create today in Outlook 2003 using VSTO...

Be sure to check out the Microsoft PSS VSTO 2005 Client TroubleShooter tool . This tool enables you to scan the client computer where you want to deploy your VSTO solutions to determine if all of the prerequites are installed, as well as providing information...

One of the chalk talks that I had the chance to attend here at Tech Ed introduced the new MSDN Wiki . The MSDN Wiki allows the community to add content to Visual Studio 2005 documentation topics. You can add additional information about the subject matter...

It's nearing the end of Tech Ed and we've been quite busy at the booth. The number one question we're being asked really surprises me. "What is VSTO?". Huh? How can this be? Even last year Tech Ed attendees seemed to have lots of questions about VSTO...

So it's nearing the end of my second day at Tech Ed. It's been busy at our VSTO booth, and customers are trying out VSTO via our hands-on labs. We had two sessions yesterday given by our product team -- the first was on security and deployment. Paul Stubbs...

Hi, so I thought I should introduce myself. I’m Kathleen McGrath and while this is my first blog, I have been blogging about VSTO for the past 3 years. I really like VSTO, having come from a VBA developer background and I’m even more excited about it...

After three years of posting to the VSTO team blog , I decided I should just go ahead and create my own. I plan to continue creating a lot of video presentation (like the VSTO "v3" June CTP videos ) that show you how to use Visual Studio to create cool...