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Monday, September 26, 2005 8:47 AM

VBA to Visual Studio Tools for Applications Migration

"How do I migrate my code from VBA to VSTA?", is a common question that is asked by many people. The short answer is that VBA code and VSTA code can run side-by-side. So if you have an existing VBA program it will continue to work. If you are creating
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:24 AM

VSTA: What is an Add-in?

This is an excellent question posed by TQ, one of our architects, on his blog . The definition of an add-in is: An “Add-in” is any component that is dynamically discovered and loaded by its host. It usually is compiled separately from the host and the
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:24 AM

The History of Application Customization

VSTA is all about application customization with the .Net framework, but the history of application customization is a long one at Microsoft. Scott Wiltamuth who was here at Microsoft for most of it has an excellent walk down memory lane in his blog.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:21 AM

Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications

Today at PDC05 they announced a new product that I have been working on for the last 2 years. So it is exciting for me to be able to finally share with you all what I have been working on. Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is a .NET-based application
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Monday, September 12, 2005 10:58 AM

How To: Dynamic CSS Action Panes in Office

In my last post How to Create HTML Action Panes for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005 I showed a simple but powerful technique to use HTML pages in the Word or Excel Task Pane. In this post I will show you how to extend this to use dynamic Cascading Style
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Monday, September 05, 2005 1:10 PM

How to Create HTML Action Panes for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005

VSTO 2005 enables developers to create Windows form Action Panes in Word and Excel with only 1 line of code. I will show you how to extend this technique to create an Action Pane using HTML. Why would you want to use HTML for a client side application
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