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Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
13 June 08 12:50 PM

Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

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

Mail Merging with Word, LINQ and XML Literals in VB
06 December 07 05:50 PM

I've mentioned before that you can use XML literals in VB 9 to do text merging so I figured it should be pretty easy to do some mail merging in Word the same way. Word 2007 (and Excel, etc) now uses a standard XML format called Office Open XML to describe Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 13 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):WordMailMerge.zip

Quickly Import and Export Excel Data with LINQ to XML
30 October 07 08:00 PM

One really handy thing to do with relational data is to import and export it to Excel. This can be a total snap using LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 2008. For example, let's say I want to import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a local database file like Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 54 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):ImportExportExcel.zip