February 2006 - Posts

• Singleton Windows Form example for Office Developers

  Every now and then, a request comes through the forums or ng's about how to code an application so that only one instance of a form class can be created. There are variations on the theme, but it all comes down to what we call a singleton design. Here's Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:30 PM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO

• UDFs in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office: put your VBA where it belongs

  I fielded a question from an eager VSTO developer in the forums. It was about the UDF-managed code support we added in VSTO- a screaming feature. Basically, you can create User-defined functions in manage code and then make them available from your VBA Read More... Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 2:51 PM by johnrdurant | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO

• Programmatically Execute Smart Tag Actions, and Kanye West as Terrence Trent D'Arby

  One of the recent questions on our forums was about invoking a smart tag action in a VSTO 2005 project. Invoke action for all Smart Tags in Word document First, let me repeat: Our smart tag tools in VSTO are reason enough to own the tools. I've been creating Read More... Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 11:31 AM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO