March 2008 - Posts

Developing an add-in for multiple versions of Office (Mary Lee)
20 March 08 12:42 PM

Theoretically, you can develop an add-in for multiple versions of Microsoft Office by catering to the lowest common denominator. This means if you use an Excel 2003 add-in template in Visual Studio 2008, you would be able to develop and debug this with Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, Office 2007, Office 2003

Share a Ribbon Customization between Office Applications (Norm Estabrook)
10 March 08 01:01 PM

We have received feedback from several folks that they would like design one Ribbon by using the Ribbon visual designer, and then re-use that same Ribbon in more than one Office application. This approach makes sense. If my custom tab looks the same for Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon

New Power Tools - Ribbon IDs Tool Window (Kemp Brown)
05 March 08 03:57 PM

The Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office team just released a cool suite of productivity apps for VS Office development called the VSTO Power Tools . One of the tools included is the Ribbon IDs Tool Window , an add-in tool window for VS that lets you browse Read More...

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Filed under: Kemp Brown, Ribbon, VSTO Power Tools