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Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010
21 December 09 02:14 PM

Last post I showed how to migrate our Northwind Outlook client to .NET 4 and Office 2010 . This Outlook Add-in displays order history information in an adjoining form region so sales associates can see that data immediately when communicating with customers. Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, DevCenter, Article, Office, Data, VS2010, VSTO, OBA

Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010
15 December 09 11:12 PM

Early this year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. If you missed them: Architecture of the Northwind Office Business Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, DevCenter, Article, Office, VS2010, VSTO, OBA

Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 2
08 December 09 10:51 AM

Last month Robert Green , VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Today we published part 2 of his step-by-step tutorials. Thanks Robert! In this second part of the series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Article, Office, VSTO, OBA

Setting up Windows 7 for Office & SharePoint 2010 Beta Development
02 December 09 07:16 PM

So I decided to get my Windows 7 laptop installed with all the latest public Betas this week which includes Visual Studio Beta 2, SharePoint 2010 Beta and Office 2010 Beta. I had been using internal builds and thought it would be better to get in sync Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, Article, Office, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint, Windows 7

Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
05 November 09 09:03 PM

Couple weeks ago when I was in Holland speaking at SDC an attendee asked me how he could call methods in an Office solution (VSTO) from VBA functions defined in a document and vice versa. I thought I’d follow up with a post on how to do this, but first Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, VBA

Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF
02 November 09 02:57 PM

This month Dev Pro Connections has an article by Milind Lele on using Sync Services in a WPF application: Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF With Sync Services and Visual Studio 2008 you can visually design your local data cache and Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
08 October 09 11:33 AM

I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic 2010. In this month’s MSDN Magazine, Spotty shows us how this new syntax in Visual Basic will make you more productive when writing code. Collection and Array Initializers Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, VS2010

Merging Text & Photos into a Word Document using Open XML SDK
24 September 09 02:55 PM

Yesterday I posted about how we could create a letter generator (mail merge) that took data from a database to create a Word 2007 document using the System.IO.Packaging class. I showed how to take data from Northwind using a single LINQ query to create Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, VSTO

Mail Merging Into a Single Word Document Using XML Literals
23 September 09 04:18 PM

With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 we can work with a much simpler, standard, XML format called Open XML which opens the door for many types of applications that cannot work via COM. What if you needed to build a scalable web service that processes Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
15 September 09 07:11 PM

Yesterday John posted on the Visual Studio Data blog how to Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during an Insert Operation using SQL Server. In that post he shows how the DataSet designer sets up a batch Insert statement to retrieve identity keys Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

“Moving in” to Windows 7: My Favorite Features & Some Tips on Setup
01 September 09 05:22 PM

Last week I installed Windows 7 Enterprise on my main laptop – a Lenovo T60p ThinkPad. I was up in Redmond and MSIT made it available via a super-easy network boot that installs Office Enterprise, all the IT-required software like anti-virus, and all Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Windows 7

Using the ReportViewer with ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework
19 August 09 09:57 PM

The Winforms ReportViewer in Visual Studio Pro will allow you define client reports with a variety of data sources. If you’re not familiar with creating client-side reports using the ReportViewer, take a look at these videos: How Do I: Create a report Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, Reporting

DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
17 August 09 10:05 AM

This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007 In this article, I talk about how a lot of applications that need to take advantage of Microsoft Office can do so without going through COM. Many Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

Auto Access to non-Indexed Collections : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the VB Compiler
14 August 09 04:26 PM

I just finished a couple more How Do I videos on using EF with WPF using VS2008 SP1 (they’ll be published soon) and while I was translating my VB code to C# I stumbled upon an error in C# that does not happen in VB. This of course got me curious and so Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework

Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients
10 August 09 05:31 PM

I was cleaning up my desk today and in the piles of mail and gobs of paper I found the SDN Magazine “Women in Technology” issue 101 that featured an article I wrote that was released in print back in May. Well, I just noticed today that near the end of Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA