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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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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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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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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...
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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Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center Just Launched!
20 November 08 06:51 PM
Everything you need to know about building Office solutions in Visual Studio is on the new Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center ! (update your bookmarks: http://msdn.com/vsto ) - Right on the home page meet MVPs and members of the product Read More...
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I'll Be Freezing... uh... Speaking at DevTeach Montreal in December
17 November 08 03:06 PM
I'll be speaking at DevTeach in Montreal December 1st - 5th this year.... brrrrr!!!! I guess I need a winter coat! Seriously though, this Canadian .NET/SQL conference is always jam-packed with high caliber speakers, take a look . I'll be speaking on Visual Read More...
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I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday Nov. 8th
05 November 08 12:33 PM
There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a couple hundred more than last year. This is a free event people, so there's no excuse not to come out to Foothill college this year. And it's not all Microsoft Read More...
Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
22 October 08 09:12 AM
If you missed it, yesterday we released a new community submitted article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by MVP Alessandro Del Sole . In this article learn how to control the Vista operating Read More...
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First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM
I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...
What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Client and Data Features
11 September 08 12:51 PM
Last night I spoke at East Bay.NET UG on some of the new features in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 focusing on client and data. I did a whirlwind tour of new SQL 2008 data types and Sync Services enhancements , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: New Features for VS2008 Office Projects in SP1
29 August 08 01:08 PM
I just posted an interview with Kris Makey , a Developer on the Office Client team. Here he shows us a couple new features of Office projects in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . First he demonstrates a new error logging feature that will log any end-user install Read More...
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Office Developer Videos - Laughing and Learning at the Same Time
14 August 08 05:10 PM
Harry Miller , programming writer for office development, has been producing office video tips on the VSTO team blog and they've been featuring on the Office Development portal on MSDN . I have to say the last couple videos are hilarious and extremely Read More...
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Comparing Two Open XML Packages with Open XML Diff
31 July 08 04:18 PM
Yesterday I received an email from another employee here at Microsoft to check out this tool called Open XML Diff that he was working on. His name is Pranav Wagh and he just released another drop of the tool which you can read about oh his blog . You Read More...
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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...
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