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...