December 2008 - Posts

Setting the Width of a Drop Down, Combo Box, or Edit Box in the Ribbon Designer (Norm Estabrook)
19 December 08 10:56 AM

Recently, a developer posted a question to the VSTO forum asking us how to set the width of a drop down control by using the Ribbon Designer ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/8965ae5a-9c02-4aec-9178-675650b7044e/ ). As this person Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008

New "How Do I" Video on Creating Smart Tags in Word (Beth Massi)
18 December 08 09:00 AM

Our very own Mary Lee has got a new video up on the Dev Center on programming smart tags in with custom recognizers in Word using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This is a video version of the How To topic in the MSDN library . Watch or download the Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, Word 2007, smart tags, VB, video, Beth Massi

Deploying Office 2003 Solutions with Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
17 December 08 03:08 PM

You may want to develop Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for several reasons. Your customers are using Microsoft Office 2003. Your customers are using both Microsoft Office 2003 and the Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Office 2003, Deployment, C#, MSI, add-ins

Why Can’t I Change the Update Path when Redeploying VSTO Solutions? (Christin Boyd, Kris Makey, Jeff Young)
16 December 08 02:45 PM

The other day I was asked about the automatic Updates feature of VSTO 3.0 deployment. In this scenario, he used the Publish Wizard in VS 2008 to create a Word document solution and the install manifest. Then a bunch of people used the Word document, and Read More...

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Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, VS2008, Manifest, Add Remove Programs

Office Programmability in Visual Basic and C# in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
15 December 08 01:39 PM

The Visual Basic team posted a walkthrough today on some of the new language features in Visual Basic and C# to help with Office programmability in Visual Studio 2010. Specific features include adding optional parameters to C# 4.0 (VB already has this) Read More...

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Filed under: primary interop assemblies, Beth Massi, VS2010