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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

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...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

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

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

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...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

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

Getting a Count of Unread Email in Outlook
28 April 09 09:02 AM

Last post I was talking about DataSets and aggregating data with LINQ and the example I gave was around finding rows of data where the Status = “Unread”. This got me thinking about how we could do this by asking Outlook for my unread email count – one Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Office, VSTO

OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
21 April 09 10:06 PM

In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data OBA Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, Workflow, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA

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

OBA Part 4 - Building an Excel Client against LOB Data
08 March 09 03:45 PM

In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data OBA Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA

OBA Part 3 - Storing and Reading Data in Word Documents
12 February 09 05:55 PM

In my last few posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data In this post I'm Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, SharePoint, OBA

OBA Part 2 - Building an Outlook Client against LOB Data
07 February 09 02:36 PM

In the last couple posts we've been talking about an Office Business Application (OBA) architecture for the new Northwind Traders and how to expose line-of-business (LOB) data , in our case the Northwind SQL database, using ADO.NET Data Services . Today Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 9 Comments    

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

Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM

The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 18 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA

ADO.NET Data Services - Building an Excel Client
22 January 09 10:46 PM

Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them: Using ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 13 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, Office, N-tier, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO

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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Filed under: VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office