February 2006 - Posts

Using the Add-In Manager to Load and Unload Add-Ins
13 February 06 09:42 AM | pstubbs | 1 Comments   

Although there are a lot of components and features in VSTA, I think that most of us on the VSTA team tend to lump those features into three buckets: SDK tools, runtime and designtime. Today, I’ll focus on the runtime components of VSTA and the various Read More...

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Beta integration with VSTA
10 February 06 08:57 AM | pstubbs | 1 Comments   

Got forms? For example, expense reports, travel requests, asset tracking forms, and status reports? Then take a look at InfoPath . As an XML-based Office application for creating and filling out electronic forms, InfoPath includes a design-mode for rapid-development Read More...

How to Download VSTA
08 February 06 09:21 AM | pstubbs | 7 Comments   

The VSTA CTP is now available, but how do you get it? As you can guess I wouldn't need to blog about it if it was as easy as clicking on a link. A little understanding of what VSTA is and how it is distributed will help clear up some confusion about how Read More...

Getting started with the VSTA ShapeApp samples
07 February 06 10:21 AM | pstubbs | 0 Comments   

The ShapeApp samples are a great way to learn about Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications (VSTA). These samples provide the complete source code for several different integrations of VSTA with an application, called ShapeApp. Most of the walkthroughs Read More...

Get started with VSTA help content
06 February 06 09:08 AM | pstubbs | 5 Comments   

The Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications (VSTA) SDK ships with a complete set of conceptual articles, code samples and step by step instructions to help you become productive with VSTA quickly. When you install the Visual Studio 2005 SDK, and the Read More...

Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications (VSTA) CTP
03 February 06 08:58 PM | pstubbs | 18 Comments   

Today we launched the first public release of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications (VSTA) Community Technology Preview (CTP). VSTA is a .NET-based application customization technology designed to be embedded into applications to enable developers Read More...