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.NET4Office

A blog by Eric Carter

June 2004 - Posts

A quick look at adding view controls and managed controls at runtime
One late breaking feature in VSTO 2.0 is known as dynamic controls. This is a feature that allows you to add managed controls (think buttons, labels, calendar controls) and view controls (think controls that are 'built-in' to the host like Range and ListObject Read More...
Where do you want F5 to go today
VSTO 2.0 has an interesting feature that lets you decide whether Visual Studio or Excel/Word handle accelerator keys you press (like F5). Because of VSTO 2.0's feature where the Excel document opens inside of the Visual Studio frame, there is some potential Read More...
More VSTO 2.0 Managed Controls
So you've (hypothetically) installed VSTO 2.0, you create a new Excel project, and you drag and drop a managed windows forms button onto the Excel worksheet. How does this magic work? The first clue is seen in the formula bar. You might see this text: Read More...
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