Kathleen's Weblog : Video Presentations, VSTO

Video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

kmcgrath — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:27:06 GMT

This week, I’m featuring the topic: Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer. This topic describes how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process. For example, you can now publish both an Excel workbook project and an Outlook add-in project at the same time. Programming Writer, Mary Lee, wrote about this in her blog post Deploying Multiple Office Solutions In a Single Installer and the post is complete with graphics to help you visualize the process.

I recently interviewed Mary to learn more about this topic, and to have her give a demonstration of some of the tasks described in the walkthrough.

See video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

-- Kathleen

VSTO: My Favorite Feature -- Even Better in Beta 2!

kmcgrath — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:53:00 GMT

Recently, I posted an entry about my favorite VSTO feature: the Ribbon Designer. In Beta 2 of VSTO, there are a lot more controls available, so I've created a new video that shows you how to use some of these controls.

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--Kathleen

Visual How to: Automating PowerPoint 2007 Using a Custom Task Pane

kmcgrath — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:21:40 GMT

Learn how to to create a custom task pane that automates Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. In this Visual How to, Harry shows you how to create a custom task pane that inserts dates into a slide when the user clicks a MonthCalendar control that is on the custom task pane.

-- Kathleen

Visual How to: Automating a Word 2007 Document Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE Ribbon Support

kmcgrath — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:19:51 GMT

Learn how to add buttons to the Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon in Word 2007 that enable you to interact with the document. This Visual How to provides a link to the documentation in the MSDN libary as well as a corresponding video.

Enjoy!

--Kathleen

Visual How To: Adding Custom Task Panes to 2007 Office Applications

kmcgrath — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:34:29 GMT

Check out the new Visual How to video and learn how to add a task pane to applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system using VSTO 2005 SE. The Visual How to also has links to corresponding documentation in the MSDN Library.

Want to see more Visual How to videos? Send us your feedback by adding a comment (and rating the video). You can add comments here on the blog too. We look at your feedback and use it to improve the videos and documentation.

-- Kathleen

VSTO For Mere Mortals Video: Customizing Built-in Tabs on the Ribbon

kmcgrath — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:55:00 GMT

This screencast shows you how to customize the Ribbon in Word 2007, by adding a new group of controls to the Home tab.

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The video is 03:10 minutes in length, and 8 MB in size.

--Kathleen

VSTO For Mere Mortals Video: Customizing the Ribbon with VSTO 2005 SE

kmcgrath — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:31:00 GMT

This screencast shows you how to customize the Ribbon in Excel using VSTO 2005 SE. You'll see how to use the new Ribbon support item in Visual Studio to add a group and toggleButton to the Add-ins tab of the Ribbon, and how to further customize it.

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The video is 04:28 minutes in length, and 14MB in size.

--Kathleen

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video: Converting an Actions Pane Solution to a Custom Task Pane Solution

kmcgrath — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:59:00 GMT

This screencast shows you how to convert an Actions Pane solution in Excel 2003 to a Custom Task Pane solution in Excel 2007. This enables the task pane to be available to any workbook that you open.

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The video is 04:37 minutes in length, and 7MB in size.

--Kathleen

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video: VSTO 2005 vs VSTO 2005 SE

kmcgrath — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:40:00 GMT

In this screencast, I describe the differences between VSTO 2005 and VSTO 2005 SE.

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The video is 05:43 minutes in length, and 8 MB in size.

--Kathleen

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video Series

kmcgrath — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:56:00 GMT

The VSTO for Mere Mortals book is now available! Co-author Paul Stubbs and I will be creating a number of video screencasts that demonstrate Office development concepts as described in the book.

The videos will not be posted in any particular order, but there will be some overviews, walkthroughs, beginning content, and advanced. My first video is an Introduction to the Actions Pane.

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The video is 04:30 minutes in length and 5.8 MB in size.

--Kathleen

Video Demo: Ribbon Control ID

kmcgrath — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:48:00 GMT

In my previous post, I described how you can re-use an image from an existing Word command on your Ribbon button. I've created a video screencast that demonstrates it. The file is 7 MB in size and is approximately 4 minutes long: ControlID Screencast.

--Kathleen

Video demos

kmcgrath — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:43:00 GMT

I know, I know...I haven't posted many new video demos since starting this blog. I've had a lot of changes happening lately, and I've been spending a lot of time finishing up work on the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office for Mere Mortals book. We added an entire chapter dedicated to the new Cypress features and have been incorporating all the tech review feedback that we've received...now we'll enter the "editing phase" (Yay!).

About the video demos ... I am planning to post a series of demos for each of the following categories:

Hobbyist Series. I'll post some video demos that show you the basics using Visual Basic Express.

Pro Dev Series. I'll post some video demos that show you more advanced programming, as well as some new features in Visual Basic.

VSTO Series. I'll be posting a series of video demos of some of the examples in the VSTO for Mere Mortals book; so you'll get an early look at some of the topics covered.

I'll also label and categorize them as such so that you can easily find the demos you're interested in. If you have ideas or sample requests, please let me know!

--Kathleen

Office Developer Conference Videos

kmcgrath — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:42:00 GMT

If you were unable to attend the Office Developer Conference this past March, or unable to attend all of the sessions you wanted to see, The Microsoft Office Developer Center has published all of the breakout sessions from the conference. To see sessions specific to VSTO, see the Client Development track.

--Kathleen

Introductions

kmcgrath — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:47:00 GMT

Hi, so I thought I should introduce myself. I’m Kathleen McGrath and while this is my first blog, I have been blogging about VSTO for the past 3 years. I really like VSTO, having come from a VBA developer background and I’m even more excited about it now that they have announced Cypress. I’ve created a number of videos on how to use various features of VSTO, so I thought I’d provide a link to them in case you haven’t already seen them:

VSTO 2005 Videos

Locating and Deleting NamedRange Controls

Resizing Controls Within Worksheet Cells

Adding a User Control to a Document

Understanding Column and Row Order of Data-Bound List Objects

Resizing Excel Controls

Adding Controls to the Actions Pane

Setting the Stack Order of Controls on the Actions Pane

Changing Controls on the Actions Pane

Binding Data to Controls in Excel

Binding Data to Controls in Word

Adding Smart Tags to Documents

Working with Managed Controls

Working with Word Host Controls

VSTO 2005 "v3"March CTP

Creating a Custom Task Pane

Creating an Add-in for PowerPoint

Customizing the Ribbon

VSTO 2005 "v3" June CTP

Creating a Custom Task Pane

Customizing the Ribbon

If you have any feedback on these videos, or requests for videos you'd like to see, please let me know!

I’m also working on a book with co-author Paul Stubbs called Visual Studio Tools for Office for Mere Mortals. This book is designed for VBA developers who are thinking about moving to VSTO. I plan to blog more about the book as we get closer to publishing.

--Kathleen