April 2007 - Posts
Paul Stubbs has created a cool little custom Windows Live search page that searches VSTO related blogs and documentation to get you an answer on VSTO quickly. http://search.live.com/macros/pstubbs/vsto Check it out!
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Daniel Moth posts a cool little Visual Tour of some of the Orcas Office features .
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I briefly mentioned a demo app built within my team that integrates Outlook with Flickr (I think I mis-identified it as Facebook in the original post). It's in that category of apps that I'm not sure the "OBA" label fits but is more of a convenient mashup
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Some people responded to my "OBA/Office Mashup" post with some descriptions of OBAs that they had written. I'd love to get a link to some screenshots of an OBA you've built with VSTO and I'll add it as "OBA of the Day" to this blog. I'll start this new
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Joel Reyes posts about the various VSTO SKUs and what project types you get with what SKUs. The basic principle is that if you only install VSTO 2005 SE you get add-in projects for Office 2003 and 2007 and code behind InfoPath 2007 forms (no 2003 or 2007
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Mary Jo Foley blogs today about an Oracle 2 OBA (Office Business Application) competition . If you haven't read much about OBAs yet, she points at Mike Walker's blog which has some articles about what is an OBA. But I think in most cases if you are doing
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There's a groovy diagram of the Office 2007 System Logical Architecture available here . The only thing I'd change is I'd make the InfoPath box on the left contain "Visual Studio Tools for Applications" as another tool in your Office 2007 toolkit. Another
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InfoPath is a great tool in the VSTO toolkit. There are two ways you can write managed code behind an InfoPath form. First, you can use Visual Studio Tools for Applications which ships on the Office CD with InfoPath 2007. VSTA provides a nice integrated
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