May, 2008

When you use ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2008 to deploy your Office solution, you can include prerequisites such as the .NET Framework 3.5, the Visual Studio Tools for Office system 3.0 Runtime, and Windows Installer 3.1. However, the primary interop assemblies...

Deploying or installing the Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs) can sometimes be problematic. There are several common errors that occur when you try to deploy or install the PIAs. Deployment pitfalls A. Can I deploy the PIA DLL with my setup...

You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package. These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks: Configure prerequisites...

Visual Studio 2008 allows a developer to create add-in projects that target Microsoft Office 2003 products even if Microsoft Office 2007 rather than Microsoft Office 2003 is installed.  So long as you don’t close and reopen the project, everything...

My last post explained some of the differences between VSTO smart tags (that is, smart tags that you implement in a document-level solution for Word or Excel by using VSTO) and COM smart tags (that is, smart tags that you create by implementing COM interfaces...

The document-level projects for Excel and Word in VSTO (in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008) provide a simple object model that you can use to create smart tags for documents and workbooks. A smart tag is a string that an Office application recognizes...

In this episode: a tip about how to save a new copy of a Word document instead of saving over the original, and how to create a class in an Outlook project to access methods without hitting the object model security prompts. Plus, Mary creates a quick...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1. I recommend starting with reading...

This episode has a tip about adding controls to Word documents, a case file about how Canada Post solved its data entry problems, and what to do when an add-in doesn't run and there's no error message. ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http:...

This series focuses on the main components or features of Visual Studio 2008 Professional that you can use for Office development. It's organized as short, five-minute episodes that you can listen to while you drive, travel, exercise, eat lunch, or whenever...

This series focuses on development tasks that are common as part of developing Office solutions, and describes the tools in Visual Studio 2008 that help you do these tasks quicker. The series is organized as short, five-minute episodes that you can listen...

Our Help content architect, Kathleen McGrath , has created a short, anonymous survey (15 questions/10 mins.) to gather input on how and when the Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer Help content is used, how satisfied you are with it, and about...