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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:58 PM

Office tip: Word Format Painter gets sticky

The Format Painter feature in Office is one on my favorite features. If you are not familiar with this feature it allows you to apply formatting to text based on the format of some other text in your document. I use this feature a lot while writing specs.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:09 AM

VSTO: My Favorite Feature - ClickOnce Deployment

One of my favorite features in the latest version of VSTO is ClickOnce Deployment. ClickOnce deployment makes securely deploying my Office add-in and document level solutions easy. VSTO deployment supports, Local , HTTP , UNC , CD / DVD and USB locations.
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Friday, November 10, 2006 7:11 AM

Top 20 cool new features of VSTA

Now that VSTA has RTM’d (See KD Hallman’s announcement at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsta ) I would like to call out all of the great features of VSTA. You can see some of these features in action today as part of InfoPath 2007. Just install InfoPath 2007,
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Friday, June 09, 2006 12:57 PM

New VSTO team member blog

After all of this time Kathleen McGrath who is member of the VSTO team and has been responsible for most of the VSTO team blog posts has finally started her own blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/Kathleen/ . Kathleen has been doing a lot of great work in her
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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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:29 AM

HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Creating SmartTags for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005 has become incredibly simple. I will show you how to create a SmartTag that interacts with an ActionsPane in less than 10 lines of code, including adding the ActionsPane. One of the hardest things
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Friday, March 11, 2005 11:24 AM

Attaching custom properties to your VSTO 2005 SmartTag

VSTO 2005 makes attaching custom properties to a Smart Tag easy. These properties can be used by the Smart Tag action. See my previous post VSTO 2005 makes Smart Tags smarter (and easier) to learn how to create VSTO SmartTags. Let’s image that you are
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:53 AM

Create Watermarks using VSTO 2005 (Part 2 C#)

In my blog yesterday I showed How to create a Word Watermark using VSTO 2005 . This was relatively easy to do using VB .Net. Today I will show you the same code using VSTO 2005 and C# (for those of you who like abuse). I have tried to make the code exactly
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Monday, March 07, 2005 9:49 AM

Create Watermarks using VSTO 2005

Programmatically creating watermarks in Word can be a challenge. Here I have created the code to add and remove watermarks in Word using VSTO 2005. The way I created this code is the way the many VBA programmers work. They record a macro doing the action
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:46 AM

VSTO 2005 makes Smart Tags smarter (and easier)

Smart Tags are VSTO’s newest feature. They have been added to the product since Beta 1 has shipped. VSTO 2005 does for Smart Tags what it did for Action Pane , makes it easy and understandable for a .net programmer. Smart Tags in Office have been around
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:44 AM

Office DevCon Day 3: VSTO 2005 is the star of the BillG Keynote

So it’s the last day of the Office Developers conference and the best was definitely saved for last: a full day of VSTO 2005. The day started with an excellent demo of Visual Studio code snippets by Matt Hessinger . (See his MSDN Article : Overview of
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Friday, February 04, 2005 9:49 AM

Office DevCon Day 2: Ask the Experts

The first day of the conference was great! There has been so much information about Office development. It is refreshing to see Office seriously getting behind the Office developers to help them be successful. On day two I spent my lunch with some other
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:02 PM

Office Developers ARE the key to Office's success

This article Microsoft Hosts First Office Systems Developers Conference correctly points outs that developers are key to Office being successful. I think that has always been true for Microsoft. Developers are key to the Windows platform as they are to
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:49 PM

Office Developers Conference Starts Today

The Microsoft Office System 2003 Developers conference starts today here on the Microsoft campus. I think this is a great start at bringing the Office Developer into the spotlight. Office is a powerful platform for developers. In the past the focus has
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Monday, September 13, 2004 12:33 AM

XMLNode and XMLNodes View Control Video Demo

Last month I did a webcast on view control programming in Office 2003 with VSTO 2005 . You can watch the archive video here: View Control Programming in Word 2003 and Excel 2003 . I have re-recorded the Word XMLNode Demo. This is a much better quality
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