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One commonly asked for feature in VSTO is the ability to use Word document and Excel workbook features in Application-level add-in projects. Starting with Visual Studio 2008 SP1, there is now a mechanism to use many of the document-level features in your
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VSTO’s document-level Smart Tags are great when you want to recognize a term in a particular document or a class of document created from a template. What are your options when you want to recognize a term in all open documents? I'm going to show
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Do you use VBA (or any other extensibility mechanism) in Office and are you headed to TechEd? If so the we would like to talk with you in an "invitation only" meeting. This is your chance to share your feedback and influence the work that Microsoft is
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Tony Crider blogs on how you can get Visual Studio to stop bugging you to upgrade an Office 2003 project on a machine where you have Office 2007 installed.
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A VSTO add-in for Word that hyperlinks all the acronyms you've used in a Word document (and defined in a dictionary file) to Wikipedia or alternate links. http://blog.focas.net.au/2008/05/11/WikipediaiseACVSTOWordAddin.aspx I thought of Amanda Silver
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Harry Miller has done a really cool series of podcasts that you can download and listen to while you workout, drive, etc. See http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/04/17/office-development-audio-series-1-is-now-available-harry-miller.aspx Super cool
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This is an important article to read if you've every wondered about how to get add-ins you've written to talk to other add-ins loaded in the same Office process. http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/05/07/calling-into-a-vsto-add-in-from-a-com-smart-tag.aspx
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I'm trying to get my head around all the changes in the Outlook 2007 object model. Some good resources are found on MSDN: New Objects, Collections, and Enumerations New Members and Constants Object Model Changes Since Microsoft Office 2003 Developer Issues
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When we last left our heroes: We created a word document, turned on the developer tab, and recorded a macro into the word document called MyMacro We worked with the trust center to make c:\vstotemp a trusted location including subfolders. We saved our
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Misha blogs again, this time about how to install a VSTO 2008 add-in to all users on a machine. Deploying your VSTO 2008 Add-In to All Users (Part III)
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VBA code can easily be called from VSTO. Here are the basic steps. Create a document with VBA code in it. Declare a public function or subroutine in the VBA code behind the document. Figure out a trusted location to create a VSTO project from Create
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Slavishly copied from John Durant's blog, I hadn't seen these before so I thought I'd pass them one. They are two case studies showing how CME Group and Dell used Visual Studio 2008 and the new features of VSTO in their solutions. CME Group Link
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There's a nice intro video to the VSTO Power Tools we recently released on Channel 9. Hopefully when i get a little more time, I'll be able to blog a bit more about these tools. For now, check out the video intro: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=397787#39778
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One of the cool new features of VSTO 3.0 is better support for what I would term "Extending VBA with VSTO". Our strategy here and what we recommend to customers is that we aren't going to try to migrate all your VBA code to VSTO--this is a bit of an unsolvable
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During Kurt DelBene’s keynote at Collaborate 08 the OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft—a new addition to the small family of OBA Sample Application Kits—was announced This kit was designed for developers and architects to
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