.NET4Office
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
Attaching to an already running Office application from your application using GetActiveObject or BindToMoniker
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