Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

A few customers have asked what the ramifications are of developing Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word solutions on a computer with the following products installed side-by-side: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Microsoft Visual...

Another colleague of mine, Muhammad Arrabi, presented a Webcast on data and databinding using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2005 . Check this one out on demand also. -- Paul Cornell ----- This posting is...

In an earlier post , I said that I would show you the code that allows a Microsoft Office document and an actions pane's UserControls to interact with each other. Here's a very simple example of how to do this. First, I created a C# Word Application...

Kathleen McGrath, a programmer/writer for Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, as well as a frequent contributor to this blog and the Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2003 blog , yesterday presented a Webcast on developing...

In an earlier post , I described what type of object model you get when you provide a relatively simple XML structure. A customer asked what happens when you have a more complicated nested XML, such as the following fictitious structure? <?xml version...

What happens if you bind host controls in a document that's part of a Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2.0 solution to a remote data source (such as a Microsoft SQL Server database) and then you want to take the document...

One of the features I'm particularly fond of in Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2.0 is the automatic creation of schema-specific programmatic object models. That's a fancy way of saying that Visual Studio Tools for...

In my last blog, I introduced you to the Bookmark view control. Eric Carter has written an article about view controls that describes what happens behind the scenes, how they're created, and what they can do for you. --Kathleen McGrath ----- This...

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2.0 provides a number of view controls that enable you to program against events and bind data to objects such as ranges, lists, bookmarks and XML nodes. The Bookmark view control...

Ever since the task pane was introduced in Microsoft Office XP for the first time, Office solution developers have asked, "How can I create my own version of a task pane to use as part of my Office solutions?" (If you're not sure what the task pane is...

Have you ever wanted to write code to respond to data changes in a Microsoft Office Excel range? In Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003, ranges do not have events. What you have to do is write code in the Change...

The Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004 - 2005 lays out a good description of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2.0. It describes how the new version separates data from view, so that you can program against the...

Welcome to the Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2.0 blog. In the days, weeks, and months ahead, I and my fellow team members will use this blog to introduce you to our upcoming Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version...