Let’s say you have a class and you want to store a collection of strings in that class. How would your method look like which would let you add a string to the class? 1: public class SampleClass 2: { 3: private List< string > myList...

I spent a while or so on this 'issue' I had. Basically it's not even an issue, it's an expected behavior (if you now what the expected behavior should be). I was using a Guid class to create a new guid in a project which would be used later in the application...

First post is published! If you are interested in SharePoint, Visual Studio, Office, VSTO or any other combination you should head over to our team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/vssharepointtoolsblog ) and subscribe to it.

How about Arabic or Korean? Imagine you are testing a product localized to Arabic language (or any other language you don't know how to read, write or you don't understand it). If you are familiar with the product in your language of preference then...

Great news : Our team is hiring both developers and testers! If you are excited about VSTO, Office, SharePoint and Visual Studio this could be the right position for you. You can read more about the open positions here . The descriptions are quite...

Nine VSTO/VSTA Power Tools were release to web today. You can download them here or read the short descriptions at Andrew Whitechapels blog .

This post will be about code formatting and maybe some reasons for the formatting decisions developers make.  Actual code that got me thinking used an if statement, but below I used 2 for loops because its easier to spot what can go wrong: for (...

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It is pretty easy to do that. Here is a piece of code which creates a folder in document library and adds a file to the created folder: SPSite site = new Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite( "http://localhost" ); SPWeb spWeb = site.RootWeb; SPList...

Imagine this scenario: You create a new VSTO solution (Word document or Excel workbook) and you run the solution. Respective application will open and you make some changes to the document/workbook - maybe you add a few pictures, change text formatting...

Yesterday we had a nice weather here in Redmond (sun was up almost whole day - there was no rain at all :)). So in the evening we decided to drive to Seattle. We went to check the view from the Space Needle and it was beautiful. Nives took some pictures...

Kris Makey started blogging so I guess you can expect some posts about VSTO ClickOnce deployment on his blog .

Looks like 2008 will be year of conferences: Office Dev Con , February 10-13, San Jose, California Sharepoint conference , March 3-6, Seattle And: PDC08 ! It was announced for October 26 (pre-conference) - October 30, 2008 in Los Angeles,...

You probably saw some posts about the 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference which is coming up in February. Conference will be held in San Jose, California from Feb 10-13. The sessions will be posted here . Compared to the Office Dev Con two...

I was thinking on doing this during my first or second week at Microsoft but I just didn't manage it. As many new employees said before: "It's like drinking from the firehose". Believe me, it is. Since this is my first post to my new blog on MSDN let...