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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM
Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE
08 April 09 08:22 AM
I just posted another interview on Channel 9 . I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team , who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates 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 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...
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