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Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010
19 November 09 10:21 AM
In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and 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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Channel 9 Interview: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010
18 November 09 12:47 PM
In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Saaid shows us the WSP Import Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 that allows developers to take SharePoint Solution packages Read More...
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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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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...
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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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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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...
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...
Visual Studio 2010 Topic of the Week
16 June 09 09:32 AM
Kathleen McGrath has started a series where she takes Visual Studio 2010 walkthroughs and demonstrates them with a screen-cast each week on Channel 9 . If you’re just digging into the VS2010 Beta you should definitely check these out to help get you started Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Everyone can download and play today!
20 May 09 10:50 AM
Here it is folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released to the public today. Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta 1 Forums , report bugs on Connect , and find Read More...
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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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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...
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...
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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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