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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...

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...

In this demonstration, I show you how you can create a VSTO "v3" add-in for Microsoft Office Access that customizes the Ribbon. You’ll find a new item called Ribbon Support that you can use to add a Ribbon class and XML file to your project. By default...

In this demonstration, I show you how you can create a VSTO "v3" add-in for Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The add-in displays a message box whenever PowerPoint is opened or closed, and there is additional code to manipulate the background and text on each...

In this demonstration, I show you how you can create an application-level custom task pane in Microsoft Office Excel. The task pane contains a MonthCalendar control and button, and enables you to insert a date into your current selection within a worksheet...

This demonstration shows you how to use the new Microsoft Office Outlook add-in project feature in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System to set the flag icon for e-mail items in your Outlook Inbox that have attachments. The...

This demonstration shows you how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System Help. The demo is five minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 12--How to Use VSTO 2005 Help . Note that the file size is about 3.2 MB. -- Paul Cornell...

This demonstration shows you how to add a smart tag to a Word document. The smart tag converts temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius using regular expressions pattern matching. The demo is seven minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 11--How to Add...

This demonstration shows you how to use the Data Sources Window in Visual Studio to add data-bound controls to a Word document. The demo is five minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 10 -- How to Bind Data to Controls on a Word Document . Note that the...

This demonstration shows you how to use the Data Sources Window in Visual Studio to add data-bound controls to an Excel worksheet. The demo is six minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 9 -- How to Bind Data to Controls on an Excel Worksheet . Note that...

This demonstration shows you how to change controls on the actions pan e according to user context. I demonstrate how to map XML elements to a Word document and write code against the ContextEnter, ContextLeave and Select event handlers of an XMLNode...

This demonstration shows you how to add multiple actions pane controls to the actions pane. It also shows you how to control the stack order of the controls on the actions pane from a custom user control that is added to the document. This demo is just...

T h is demonstration shows you how to add multiple Microsoft Windows Forms controls to the actions pane using the new actions pane control. This demo is six minutes long and can be viewed at D e mo 6 - How to Add Controls to the Actions Pane . Note that...

In my second video tutorial, I showed you how to resize Microsoft Windows Forms controls within worksheet cells. This demo shows you how to resize Microsoft Office Excel controls (the NamedRange and ListObject controls) at design time and at run time...

This demonstration describes how Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2005 persists the row and column order of a data-bound ListObject . The demo is five minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 4 -- How Column and Row...

This demonstration shows you how you can create a custom user control so that you can add it to your document by dragging the control from the Toolbox. The demo is five minutes long, and can be viewed at Demo 3 -- Add a Custom User Control to your Document...

This demonstration shows you how to set a property on a Microsoft Windows Forms control that you've added to your Microsoft Office Excel worksheet so that it automatically resizes when you resize the worksheet cell. This demo is six minutes long and can...

Following Paul Stubbs' lead, I'll be providing a series of short video presentations to demonstrate some of the new features of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. The first demo shows you how to locate and delete NamedRange...