Kathleen McGrath's Weblog

The next two Webcasts from the Visual Basic team will dive into details about LINQ, and will explore building service-oriented applications. Amanda Silver will present Live From Redmond: VB9 - Deep Dive into LINQ on May 23 at 9:00 AM . Amanda will...

Paul Stubbs just posted an interesting blog entry about how to tie Groove and Outlook together using VSTO. Paul shows you how to call into Microsoft Office Groove 2007 (a collaboration software program) from an Outlook 2007 add-in. To learn more, see...

One of my favorite features in the latest version of VSTO is the Ribbon Designer . The Ribbon Designer makes it easy to customize the Ribbon in your Office applications. In VSTO 2005 SE, you could add a Ribbon Item to your project and then add XML markup...

If you didn't get the opportunity to attend Mix07 in Las Vegas this year, you can check out videos of the presentations at the Mix 07 Website . Below are a few of my favorite presentations. Just click the screen to view the video. You'll need to install...

Learn how to to create a custom task pane that automates Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. In this Visual How to , Harry shows you how to create a custom task pane that inserts dates into a slide when the user clicks a MonthCalendar control that is on...

Check out the Silverlight in Their Own Words video that Harry and I produced. In this video, several members of the Silverlight team describe Silverlight and show you the types of applications you can build with Silverlight. You can get more information...