May 2008 - Posts

Office development audio series 3 is now available (Harry Miller)
30 May 08 12:32 PM
This series focuses on development tasks that are common as part of developing Office solutions, and describes the tools in Visual Studio 2008 that help you do these tasks quicker. The series is organized as short, five-minute episodes that you can listen Read More...
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Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee)
29 May 08 06:32 PM
You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package. These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks: Configure prerequisites: Read More...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 2 (Harry Miller)
28 May 08 07:14 PM
In this episode: a tip about how to save a new copy of a Word document instead of saving over the original, and how to create a class in an Outlook project to access methods without hitting the object model security prompts. Plus, Mary creates a quick Read More...
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Using VS 2008 to continue working on Office 2003 Add-ins (Anthony Crider)
23 May 08 04:52 PM
Visual Studio 2008 allows a developer to create add-in projects that target Microsoft Office 2003 products even if Microsoft Office 2007 rather than Microsoft Office 2003 is installed.  So long as you don’t close and reopen the project, everything Read More...
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Do you have an opinion about Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer Help content? (Kemp Brown)
21 May 08 04:23 PM
Our Help content architect, Kathleen McGrath , has created a short, anonymous survey (15 questions/10 mins.) to gather input on how and when the Visual Studio and .NET Framework developer Help content is used, how satisfied you are with it, and about Read More...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 1 (Harry Miller)
21 May 08 03:16 PM
This episode has a tip about adding controls to Word documents, a case file about how Canada Post solved its data entry problems, and what to do when an add-in doesn't run and there's no error message. ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/vsto/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftOfficeDeveloperShowEpisode1_C0DD/videoa560ee5da024.jpg"> Read More...
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Common Pitfalls during PIA Deployment and Installation (Mary Lee)
20 May 08 12:05 PM
Deploying or installing the Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs) can sometimes be problematic. There are several common errors that occur when you try to deploy or install the PIAs. Deployment pitfalls A. Can I deploy the PIA DLL with my setup project? Read More...
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Office development audio series 2 is now available (Harry Miller)
15 May 08 11:45 AM
This series focuses on the main components or features of Visual Studio 2008 Professional that you can use for Office development. It's organized as short, five-minute episodes that you can listen to while you drive, travel, exercise, eat lunch, or whenever Read More...
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Peek at Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)
11 May 08 10:42 PM
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1. I recommend starting with reading Read More...
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Adding the Office Primary Interop Assemblies as a Prerequisite in your ClickOnce installer (Mary Lee)
08 May 08 02:21 PM
When you use ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2008 to deploy your Office solution, you can include prerequisites such as the .NET Framework 3.5, the Visual Studio Tools for Office system 3.0 Runtime, and Windows Installer 3.1.  However, the primary interop Read More...
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Calling Into A VSTO Add-in From a COM Smart Tag (McLean Schofield)
07 May 08 01:38 PM
My last post explained some of the differences between VSTO smart tags (that is, smart tags that you implement in a document-level solution for Word or Excel by using VSTO) and COM smart tags (that is, smart tags that you create by implementing COM interfaces Read More...
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Understanding VSTO Smart Tags and COM Smart Tags (McLean Schofield)
02 May 08 12:09 PM
The document-level projects for Excel and Word in VSTO (in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008) provide a simple object model that you can use to create smart tags for documents and workbooks. A smart tag is a string that an Office application recognizes Read More...
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