Windows Vista vastly improves overall quality, security, and reliability as compared to previous versions of Windows. Though there are tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backward compatibility, some system enhancements, such as User Account...

The VSTO Team is at Tech Ed! I’m sure most of you are aware that Tech Ed is going on now, even as we speak, in Orlando, Florida. What you might not know, however, is that several members of the VSTO team are at the event. They are presenting breakout...

The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down...

Hi everybody! I just wanted to let you know that there are some cool VSTO 2005 SE "Visual How To" videos in the Office Solutions Development section of the MSDN Library. Here are the links for your convenience. Visual How Tos Adding Custom Task...

There is a new VSTO screencast on the MSDN Channel 9 site. Here's the link: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=306413 Here are the details: Visual Studio "Orcas" makes it very easy for your existing VBA solutions to call Visual Studio...

Visual Studio Tools for Office is the premiere development tool for building Office Business Applications. More features and RAD tools are added to VSTO as it evolves and some of these items are becoming fast favorites of the VSTO product team and third...

I just wanted to remind everyone that our series is starting on April 19th with VSTO expert Ken Getz. Below you'll see links to the first three webcasts in the series. You can also find them (and links to future webcasts) in the MSDN Webcast Calendar...

Well, it's been a long time since I posted an entry into this blog. It's been a pretty wild wide for me this past year, and I can honestly say that I'm finally getting used to my job as the VSTO Product Manager. But I digress... I'm pleased to announce...

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE for short), a fully-supported, free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that empowers...

I’m very pleased to announce the beta release of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta, or VSTO 2005 SE Beta for short), a fully-supported, free add-on to Visual Studio 2005...

Work and fun - that's what happens at Tech Ed every year! It's so great to be able to speak to so many customers at on etime in one place. We really get to learn a lot about what they're doing with our products, the difficulties they encounter, and...

Ahh, Starbucks in the morning – there’s nothing like it. I’m was quite a happy camper this morning because I actually had time to get my beloved Tall-Light-Room-Americano before I caught the bus. Life is good… We had another good day at the event...

It was a bright sunny day in Boston today. It’s too bad because I spent most of the time inside the Boston Convention Center . I have to admit that I did have a lot of fun, though. I spent most of the morning with my colleagues from the Trinity...

Well, I’m here in beautiful downtown Boston for Tech Ed 2006, and I can’t wait for the week to begin. Thousands of people from all over the world have flown in to attend and participate in the event, and I’m quite certain there will be many sessions that...

I'm certainly looking forward to next week, as I'm going to be participating in Tech Ed. It seems to be a yearly tradition that I'm certainly happy to continue this year. Thomas Quinn (a.k.a. "TQ" and the Technical Architect for the team) and I are...

I'm very pleased to report that KD Hallman, General Manager for the Office Developer Platform Tools team, just announced VSTO "Cypress" on the VSTO Forum. VSTO "Cypress" is a fully-supported free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that will enable developers...

The June 2006 Community Technology Preview of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office "V3" is now available. The primary goal of this CTP is to showcases several new important investments in the area of Office programmability. New XML-based file formats...

Since the Beta 1 version of Visual Studio Tools for Office was released, bloggers have been discovering and writing about how to design, implement, and deploy Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions for Word and Excel. The VSTO team compiled links to...

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Toolkit: Requirements Authoring Starter Kit Learn how the Requirements Authoring Starter Kit (RASK) can help software development teams collect, interpret, distribute, and synchronize project requirements in a structured...

Bill Gates just kicked off the Office Developer Conference with an announcement and a demo of the March 2006 CTP of VSTO “V3”. Office 2007 Beta 1 customers can download the VSTO V3 CTP by starting from Betaplace or by going to the Visual Studio Futures...

See, I'm back already! <vbg> Would you like to help realize the vision of Office as a development platform? Do you want your work integrated into every one of the hundreds of millions of desktops that have Office installed? Are you looking...

Well, after much thought, personal reflection, and ceaseless encouragement from many of my fellow team members, I've come into the 21st Century and am now part of the blogshpere. I'm the Community Program Manager for the Trinity team, and it finally made...