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VSTA DTEProvider has the ability to launch Visual Studio
17 May 09 04:24 PM | VSTABlog | 1 Comments   
In VSTA 2.0, you can use DTEProvider to launch Visual Studio instead of VSTA, which can be helpful for debugging or provide additional functionalities for users who already have Visual Studio installed. For example, in ShapeAppCSharpMacroRecording sample, Read More...
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Using WPF in VSTA 2.0
10 May 09 11:02 AM | VSTABlog | 2 Comments   
In VSTA 2.0, you have the ability to use WPF. In this post, we will show a simple example to add video to a VSTA add-in using WPF. We will start with ShapeAppCSharpBasic Example. Launch VSTA using "vsta.exe /hostid ShapeAppCSharp", Create a new C# project Read More...
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Additional information about VSTA
15 January 09 02:59 PM | VSTABlog | 1 Comments   
Just providing a link to my blog here, that has some information captured about VSTA http://blogs.msdn.com/sandeep_bhatia Read More...
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Creating a Host Item Template
05 June 08 03:55 PM | VSTABlog | 0 Comments   
The VSTA SDK provides samples and help topics that show you how to dynamically add host items to VSTA add-in projects. However, If you've read the topic "How to: Add and Remove Host Items in an Add-in Project", you might have been a bit confused Read More...
Learn about VSTA customer success stories and innovations in VSTA 2.0, tune into our webcast on Sep 27, 2007 at 9 AM PST
27 August 07 01:37 PM | VSTABlog | 1 Comments   
Come join us for a webcast on September 27, 2007 at 9:00 AM PST to learn about customer success stories who are using VSTA and the innovations we have made in VSTA 2.0. Naveen Yajaman, Program Manager on the VSTA team will be presenting. For more event Read More...
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How to Integrate the .NET Framework SDK Documentation with VSTA
17 May 07 07:36 PM | pstubbs | 0 Comments   
The InfoPath team shows you how to integrate the .Net Framework help into the VSTA IDE for InfoPath. Make sure you follow the note about starting InfoPath as an administrator if you are using Windows Vista with UAC turned on (which you should be doing Read More...
VSTA Video: VSTA at a glance
27 April 07 09:23 AM | pstubbs | 1 Comments   
Harry Miller who is a documentation writer on the VSTO and VSTA team has created a short video that looks at VSTA. This video does an excellent job at explaining at a high level (manager view) what is VSTA, what are some of the features and how it is Read More...
VSTA powers Solgenia customizations
19 April 07 02:58 PM | pstubbs | 0 Comments   
Solgenia is one the of first ISV customers to integrate Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) into their GeoMap software suite. Russ Fustino will be doing a demo of Solgenia's VSTA integration at Teched 2007 in Orlando this June. Read more about Read More...
VSTA Video: VSTA Overview
28 March 07 09:26 AM | pstubbs | 3 Comments   
By now you have seen Visual Studio Tools for Applications in Office InfoPath 2007 and have been wondering about how to integrate VSTA into your applications. Watch Eric and Naveen take you through the features and design goals of VSTA. Watch Now Read More...
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VSTA 2005 SDK Launch Announcement
27 March 07 09:46 AM | pstubbs | 2 Comments   
I am pleased to announce the release of the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications Software Development Kit (SDK) . VSTA allows Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and enterprises to add application customization to their applications. Microsoft InfoPath Read More...
VSTA RTM's with the 2007 Office System
10 November 06 07:07 AM | VSTABlog | 14 Comments   
I am excited to announce that Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) was released as an integrated component of the 2007 Office system earlier this week and is available to both Office developers and ISVs! As Microsoft's future direction in application Read More...
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VBA and VSTA side by side
31 July 06 02:24 PM | pstubbs | 2 Comments   
One of the cool features of VSTA is that it can exist side by side with VBA in the host application. This allows hosts to slowly migrate their users to managed code over time. Summit has created a sample walkthrough showing you how to integrate VBA and Read More...
Unloading an Add-In
13 July 06 01:55 PM | pstubbs | 4 Comments   
It has been a while since I’ve blogged, and I still haven’t delivered on my promise that I would explain how to control the AppDomain into which an add-in will be loaded. I’m not going to deliver on that promise today, either; mostly because I think that Read More...
External Process Debugging in VSTA
14 April 06 03:40 PM | pstubbs | 2 Comments   
VSTA was faced with some interesting problems when it came to the add-in developer’s debugging experience. VSTA is built on Visual Studio 2005 and .Net Framework 2.0. The debugging model in these products is a cycle of Build-Start-Debug and eventually Read More...
Loading an Add-In
16 March 06 08:51 AM | pstubbs | 13 Comments   
In my last entry, Using the Add-In Manager to Load and Unload Add-Ins , I mentioned the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.AddInManager.dll assembly and that it contains classes that can be used to load add-ins into a hosting application. I also Read More...
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