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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

New Learning Resources on the VSTO Developer Center
01 December 09 05:43 PM

Last week we revamped the Learn pages on the VSTO Developer Center with more content that allows you to pivot on more fine-grained topics and tasks under each type of Office solution. We’ve changed the layout of these pages so that you can browse for Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter, Office, VSTO

SF Bay.NET UG Tonight: Create a Custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO
18 November 09 02:23 PM

If you’re in the Bay Area, come on out to downtown SF where Robin will be talking about Outlook Add-ins tonight. Create a custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO When :  Wednesday, 11/18/2009 at 6:30 PM Where : Microsoft San Francisco Office, 835 Market Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office, VS2010, VSTO

Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
16 November 09 03:53 PM

In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective. Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint

SDC 2009 Recap & Surprise
20 October 09 06:39 AM

SDC09 has been a blast. I just finished my last session on Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and I think it went well. We created an OBA for good old Northwind Traders. I migrated the 2008 code which is here on code gallery Read More...

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Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter, VSTO, OBA

Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks
25 June 09 03:34 PM

If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on the Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Basic to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Article, Office, VSTO

TechEd is Online
11 May 09 12:15 PM

If you’re like me and couldn’t make it down to L.A. this year for TechEd, you can still check out some of the sessions and Keynotes at TechEd Online . If you want to really geek out, you can also watch the twitter feed , blog feed and more . Don’t forget Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter, VSTO

CodeCast Episode 20 with Yours Truly!
07 May 09 08:50 AM

In the latest episode of CodeCast , Ken interviews me about my role on the Visual Studio Community Team. Ken caught me a couple weeks ago when I was in Redmond and we had a chat in the lobby of building 41. Ken and I are good friends and go way back so Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, VS2010, VSTO, Podcast

dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

dnrTV: Showing off the Open XML SDK and LINQ
07 April 09 03:05 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly . This time I’m talking about the Open XML SDK , something that I’ve written and spoken about many times . In this episode I show how to use Word 2007 content controls and map them to custom XML Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, VSTO