Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » VSTO   (RSS)

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.
Posted by pstubbs | 10 Comments
Filed under: , ,

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video: Convert ActionPane to CustomTaskPane

Using VSTO 2005 and Office 2003 you can create an Action Pane (see video) . This is a document level object, which mens that it is attached and visible only when the document is open. Now in using VSTO 2005 SE and Office 2007 you can create CustomTaskPanes.

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video: Action Pane

Watch the first video training from our book - VSTO for Mere Mortals . You can watch the video on kathleen's blog . Kathleen does an excellent job showing you how to use the VSTO Action Pane. Intoduction to Action Pane video training The video explains

Create Document Level VSTO Apps for Office 2007

VS Orcas Sept CTP enables Visual Studio Tools for Office developers to build document-level customizations for Word and Excel 2007.
Posted by pstubbs | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Unit Testing for VSTO (part 2 Automated Tests)

Learn how to use VSTS to create automated tests for VSTO Office applications.
Posted by pstubbs | 5 Comments
Filed under:

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
Posted by pstubbs | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

VSTO beats XBOX 360 to the punch

So, what does VSTO have to do with the XBOX 360 ? Well VSTO is created by the Trinity team, which is part of DevDiv (the Developer Division). It was interesting to learn that the original codename for the 360 was going to be Trinity. But as the article
Posted by pstubbs | 1 Comments
Filed under:

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
Posted by pstubbs | 13 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 5 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 18 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

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
Posted by pstubbs | 3 Comments
Filed under: , ,
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker