Backup is not something as a home user that you think about everyday. I sure didn’t, until I had hard drive trouble. Then you start mentally listing all of the important documents and photos that you are about to lose. After I resigned to the fact...

A new study shows that sleeping is the best way to solve a problem . Working on bringing together Visual Studio and Office ( VSTO ) has its share of extremely difficult problems. How do you mesh fundamentally different users, Professional Developers and...

Here is an excellent article on Converting Code from VBA to Visual Basic .Net . The article talks about many of the pitfalls in converting. In general converting from VBA to VB .Net is very straight forward. This article is a must read for developers...

No one is immune to hackers as this story points out. Even your local fast food drive through is hacked. This may seem like a prank but it does real damage in terms of business and monetary value. As traditional targets ,banks and business get more secure...

Welcome to the New Year and welcome to my new blog. I am a Program Manager for Microsoft on the Visual Studio team. Our team is responsible for Office programmability. Our first product is Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System or just VSTO...