This week, I’m featuring the topic Walkthrough: Copying a document to the end user computer after a ClickOnce Installation of an Office solution . As a continuation of an earlier interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deployment action...

This week, I’m featuring the topic: Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer . This topic describes how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process. For example, you can now publish both an...

Recently, I posted an entry about my favorite VSTO feature : the Ribbon Designer. In Beta 2 of VSTO, there are a lot more controls available, so I've created a new video that shows you how to use some of these controls. View Video Download Video (Right-click link) --Kathleen

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 the custom task pane. -- Kathleen

Learn how to add buttons to the Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon in Word 2007 that enable you to interact with the document. This Visual How to provides a link to the documentation in the MSDN libary as well as a corresponding video. Enjoy! --Kathleen

Check out the new Visual How to video and learn how to add a task pane to applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system using VSTO 2005 SE. The Visual How to also has links to corresponding documentation in the MSDN Library. Want to see more Visual How to videos? Send us your feedback by adding a...

This screencast shows you how to customize the Ribbon in Word 2007, by adding a new group of controls to the Home tab. View Video Download Video (Right-click link) The video is 03:10 minutes in length, and 8 MB in size. --Kathleen

This screencast shows you how to customize the Ribbon in Excel using VSTO 2005 SE. You'll see how to use the new Ribbon support item in Visual Studio to add a group and toggleButton to the Add-ins tab of the Ribbon, and how to further customize it. View Video Download Video (Right-click link...

This screencast shows you how to convert an Actions Pane solution in Excel 2003 to a Custom Task Pane solution in Excel 2007. This enables the task pane to be available to any workbook that you open. View Video Download Video (Right-click link) The video is 04:37 minutes in length, and 7MB in...

In this screencast, I describe the differences between VSTO 2005 and VSTO 2005 SE. View Video Download Video (Right-click link) The video is 05:43 minutes in length, and 8 MB in size. --Kathleen

The VSTO for Mere Mortals book is now available! Co-author Paul Stubbs and I will be creating a number of video screencasts that demonstrate Office development concepts as described in the book. The videos will not be posted in any particular order, but there will be some overviews, walkthroughs,...

In my previous post , I described how you can re-use an image from an existing Word command on your Ribbon button. I've created a video screencast that demonstrates it. The file is 7 MB in size and is approximately 4 minutes long: ControlID Screencast . --Kathleen

I know, I know...I haven't posted many new video demos since starting this blog. I've had a lot of changes happening lately, and I've been spending a lot of time finishing up work on the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office for Mere Mortals book. We added an entire chapter dedicated to the new Cypress...

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 specific to VSTO, see the Client Development track...

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 now that they have announced Cypress . I’ve created...