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A blog by Eric Carter

I wanted to make sure everyone knows that VB code samples for the VSTO for Office 2007 book are now...

Date: 11/18/2009

To get started, from the Project menu choose Add New Item. In the Add New Item dialog box, click...

Date: 05/14/2009

Prior to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you couldn’t use common VSTO features like controls in the document...

Date: 05/14/2009

Another thing I want my bug tracking system to do is help me generate a weekly report with a summary...

Date: 05/14/2009

We are now going to convert our previous sample to use cached data.  In our current solution we...

Date: 05/14/2009

Now that we have our web service, lets get started by writing a managed UDF that uses the web method...

Date: 05/14/2009

Within Microsoft, there is a web service already implemented that I can use in my solution to call...

Date: 05/14/2009

For my TechEd demo today, I will be showing a solution that helps me to do part of my job as a...

Date: 05/14/2009

Saurabh blogs about how to work around an error you get if you published a VSTO solution using...

Date: 05/08/2009

I will be at TechEd next week and will present a session on advanced VSTO: OFC324 Advanced Microsoft...

Date: 05/06/2009

This post examines how to build research services for Word and other Office applications. Word has a...

Date: 04/10/2009

There are some great VSTO community activities going on in Vienna.  Office Community Day is...

Date: 03/25/2009

New in Word 2007, content controls can be inserted into a document to provide more structure and...

Date: 03/24/2009

There a lot of changes between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for developers.  Here are some...

Date: 03/19/2009

It is instructive to compare code from the previous edition of my book to see what changed between...

Date: 03/17/2009

The C# code listings for the VSTO 2007 book are attached to this post. I will also get them posted...

Date: 03/14/2009

One common pattern of Office development is the Office Automation Executable—a console or windows...

Date: 03/12/2009

With VSTO 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008, there are a lot of new features and it can be a bit of a...

Date: 03/10/2009

I stumbled upon a couple of good posts about getting VSTO projects to build on a continuous...

Date: 03/06/2009

I’m excited to announce that I have completed a new book on VSTO 2008 and Office 2007 that is hot...

Date: 03/02/2009

Saw a weird bug in VSTO this weekend as I was setting up a new home machine (Quad core—woohoo!)....

Date: 10/16/2008

Scott Hanselman blogs on a simple VSTO Outlook add-in to disable the Reply To All and Forward...

Date: 08/21/2008

I really liked David Crow's post on building the next Xobni--has lots of practical advise about both...

Date: 08/21/2008

Note that the approach described in this article is not supported by Microsoft. The GetVstoObject...

Date: 07/28/2008

One commonly asked for feature in VSTO is the ability to use Word document and Excel workbook...

Date: 07/24/2008

VSTO’s document-level Smart Tags are great when you want to recognize a term in a particular...

Date: 07/10/2008

Do you use VBA (or any other extensibility mechanism) in Office and are you headed to TechEd? If so...

Date: 06/03/2008

Tony Crider blogs on how you can get Visual Studio to stop bugging you to upgrade an Office 2003...

Date: 05/28/2008

A VSTO add-in for Word that hyperlinks all the acronyms you've used in a Word document (and defined...

Date: 05/12/2008

Harry Miller has done a really cool series of podcasts that you can download and listen to while you...

Date: 05/09/2008

This is an important article to read if you've every wondered about how to get add-ins you've...

Date: 05/08/2008

I'm trying to get my head around all the changes in the Outlook 2007 object model. Some good...

Date: 05/07/2008

When we last left our heroes: We created a word document, turned on the developer tab, and recorded...

Date: 05/05/2008

Misha blogs again, this time about how to install a VSTO 2008 add-in to all users on a machine....

Date: 04/26/2008

VBA code can easily be called from VSTO.  Here are the basic steps. Create a document with VBA...

Date: 04/25/2008

Slavishly copied from John Durant's blog, I hadn't seen these before so I thought I'd pass them...

Date: 04/23/2008

There's a nice intro video to the VSTO Power Tools we recently released on Channel 9. ...

Date: 04/22/2008

One of the cool new features of VSTO 3.0 is better support for what I would term "Extending VBA with...

Date: 04/21/2008

During Kurt DelBene’s keynote at Collaborate 08 the OBA Sample Application Kit for...

Date: 04/18/2008

This is a common question with VSTO 3.0 add-ins.  Office only allows VSTO add-ins to be...

Date: 04/17/2008

Geoff Darst--an engineer on our team--sent this to me a while back and I think it would be good to...

Date: 04/16/2008

Kristopher Makey, an engineer on my team, blogs about how to add an "Update Now" button to get a...

Date: 04/15/2008

Something to check out if you haven't seen it yet.  This was released earlier this year....

Date: 04/14/2008

Daniel Molina, a developer on my team, shared this code which is useful if you want to detect the...

Date: 04/11/2008

So, while running Excel 2007 with VSTO installed, you may have noticed that there are two design...

Date: 04/10/2008

If you haven't checked this out yet, it is worth looking at. Nathan Carlson, a developer on my team,...

Date: 04/09/2008

The VSTO team blog has moved to https://blogs.msdn.com/vsto , and the RSS feed is...

Date: 04/08/2008

Andrew Whitechapel posted a great article explaining the multiple versions of the VSTO runtime....

Date: 04/07/2008

Michael Dunn posted a cool VSTO add-in for Outlook that integrates Outlook and Communicator. ...

Date: 04/04/2008

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