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Nathan Carlson developed a creative solution for Outlook 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas).  The Out Loud for Outlook project started as a dogfood testing project last summer.  For those of you unfamiliar with the dogfood testing...

There’s recently been some confusing information circulating about the future of VBA in the press that we want to clear up. The report that the next generation of Office will not contain VBA is untrue – the next generation of the Microsoft...

If you created a project for Microsoft Office 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you will probably see a number of broken assembly references if you open the project in the final release of Visual Studio 2008. This is because most of the assemblies...

There is no way to show or hide an adjoining form region at run time. However, you can show and hide a custom task pane at run time. Therefore, if you need to give your users the ability to show and hide a UI panel in an Outlook item, consider using a...

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Hi, my name is Kris Makey, I'm one of the Testers working on the VSTO team. Over the last year my area has been focused on testing the new Deployment features for "Orcas" Office 2007. It's been a rather hectic year getting every to be just right. Hopefully...

An updated VSTO 2005 SE runtime (VSTOR.exe, build .891) is now publicly available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4468D8CB-B43E-4B09-82F6-8BA3F7B5E935 This update contains a couple of bug fixes in the area...

The Common Language Runtime stores User security policy in a location based on the CLR version number. Updates to the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 update the CLR version number when they are installed, which causes the CLR to check for policy in a different...

I'm hoping many of you are as excited as we are about the upcoming release of VSTO - shipping in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. In this release, we'll have many new exciting features such as the ability to create custom Outlook form regions...

This 4-minute video demonstrates creating a form region in Outlook with controls that are bound to Outlook data, and then importing the form region into a Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Outlook add-in project. After the form region is in Visual Studio, you...

Here's a short video that shows a new feature of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- calling from VBA in a VSTO solution document into the managed Visual Basic code in the assembly. You can find out more and download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 from the Visual...

Download the audio file Duration 9:48 Size 7 MB Thomas Quinn answers Christin's questions about why Visual Studio Tools for Office has its own runtime. Related link: Thomas Quinn's blog

Download the audio file Duration 19:02 Size 13.5 MB Joanna Bichsel from the Office Platform Strategy team joins Steve Fox to talk about how and why to build OBAs, including lessons learned from building a sales forecasting application using SharePoint...

Download the audio file Duration 17:08 Size 12.5 MB Mike Morton talks with Christin about using form regions to customize Outlook, and some of the new Outlook tools in VSTO that are coming in Beta 2. Related links: Creating Outlook Form Regions...

Many of you may have heard about Office Business Applications, or OBAs. If not, OBAs are essentially composite applications that you can build using the Microsoft Office 2007 system. Part of the goal of OBAs is to also integrate with LOB systems, such...

Download the audio file Duration 20:50 Size 15 MB Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs) and customizing the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Related links: Office Business Applications Developer Portal...

Download the audio file Duration 19:05 Size 13.5 MB Mike Walker, a VSTO MVP, talks about the Office solutions his company develops, and how they plan to use the new features of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Related Link: FWBS Ltd , Mike Walker...

Download the audio file Duration 13:23 Size 9.5 MB Darryn Lavery talks with Christin about the changes to security and deployment in Visual Studio 2008. Related link: ClickOnce Deployment

登陆澳克斯岛（ VSTO2008 ） Download the audio file Duration 9:48 Size 7 MB In this Chinese-language episode, Mei Liang and Qiong Ou from VSTO QA provide an introduction to VSTO Orcas and software testing. Related links: Visual Studio Product Roadmap...

Download the audio file Duration: 6:03 Size: 4.5 MB In this audio how-to, Harry Miller gives some tips and tricks for creating custom task panes using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition. Related Videos: Adding Custom Task Panes to...

The Beta 1 release of Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Tools for the Microsoft Office System introduced a new visual design canvas called the Ribbon Designer. You can use the Ribbon Designer to add custom tabs, groups, and controls to the Ribbon of...

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Download the audio file Duration 14:33 Size 10 MB Thomas Quinn talks with Christin about the VSTO runtime and the managed add-in framework. Related links : Thomas Quinn's blog

There's a new type of technical article on MSDN called "Visual How Tos." These articles feature videos that show how to perform specific tasks, and they include short written articles with code samples or links to code samples and other examples in the...