If you were unable to attend the Office Developer Conference this past March, or unable to attend all of the sessions you wanted to see, The Microsoft Office Developer Center has published all of the breakout sessions from the conference. To see sessions...

I'm a big fan of Visual Basic. When I was a writer on the VSTO team, we always wrote our code examples in both C# and Visual Basic; samples that shipped with the product also had a fair mix of C# and Visual Basic. Sometimes, if you look at the Visual...

The Channel 9 team recently interviewed members of the Visual Studio Tools for Office team. You can learn more about VSTO at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=215057 . And to find out about the future of Visual Studio Tools for Office,...

When you customize the ribbon with the June CTP of VSTO, it can be difficult to identify errors in your XML markup. Because XML is case-sensitive, it is easy to introduce errors and can be difficult to find exactly where in your mark up the error occurs...

Two articles written by members of the VSTO/VSTA team made the cover of MSDN magazine . The first was co-authored by Andrew Whitechapel , entitled Business Apps: What You Need to Know About Using Office As A Development Platform . This article describes...