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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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'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...
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