Both Outlook and Groove contain calendars so which one do you use? Each one has its own strengths but it would be cool to be able to sync your appointments. I have created a small sample using VSTO and the Groove SDK that will allow you to import and...

I have been using the Windows Home Server at home for a few months now and I love it . The reason I love it is because it's just like making toast. What I mean is that when you wake up in the morning and go downstairs to make breakfast, you put the bread...

Groove is an excellent Office application for team collaboration. You can also take advantage of the Groove platform from other applications like your VSTO add-ins. Let's take a look at how we can integrate Groove into Outlook using VSTO to create powerful...

One of my favorite features in the latest version of VSTO is ClickOnce Deployment. ClickOnce deployment makes securely deploying my Office add-in and document level solutions easy. VSTO deployment supports, Local , HTTP , UNC , CD / DVD and USB locations...

VSTO provides a simple way for you to call your managed code using VSTO. In this Channel 9 Screencast Eric walks you through a simple example using VBA to VB interop. I will be walking through more complex examples in future posts and will also be presenting...

Read how new features in VSTO help you easily program the Office Fluent UI like Ribbon and Outlook Form Regions. Steve Fox and I walk you through creating a Ribbon using the visual designers in VSTO. We then close the article showing how easy it is to...

Kathleen has posted about the new VSTO Ribbon designer being one of her favorite features. The Ribbon designer in VSTO is way cool and makes creating Ribbon UI super easy. But, there may be times when you want to go beyond what the designer supports....

Watch Rob Barker from the OBA team talk about how Microsoft Office and VSTO can bring together the richness of the Office client and the reach of the web. Watch Now. Here is the official abstract: Come learn how to make your Web service instantly recognizable...

As a developer one of the features that I used daily was to drag files from Windows Explorer onto a command prompt. This would paste the full path to the file into the command window and was great for command line utilities such as gacutil or caspol ...