April 2009 - Posts

Here is a Way to Get the ID of a Built-in Outlook Command Bar Menu (Norm Estabrook)
30 April 09 02:09 PM

Recently, a forum poster asked us how he could add a submenu item to a built-in menu item in Outlook.  Note that these are not controls that appear on the Ribbon of an Outlook item, but rather the menus that drop down from the top of the Outlook Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Command bars, Office 2007, Office 2003, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development

Signing and re-signing manifests in ClickOnce (Saurabh Bhatia)
29 April 09 06:25 PM

ClickOnce manifest signing can be a little confusing for someone going through the process the very first time. This is probably because it involves signing multiple files in a particular sequence. Once you understand the process conceptually it becomes Read More...

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Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Mage

Clearing Off Custom Menu Items in Word (Norm Estabrook)
14 April 09 11:37 AM

Last month I posted this article that described how to prevent your add-in from creating duplicate menu items in Word.  If you have been experimenting with customization contexts, you might have several menu items that appear when you right click Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Office 2007, Office 2003, Word Object Model, Word 2007, Word 2003, VS2008, Office Development

Channel 9 Interview: Resigning ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE (Beth Massi, Saurabh Bhatia)
08 April 09 08:25 AM

I just posted another interview on Channel 9 . I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates Read More...

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Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, VS2008, Saurabh Bhatia, Beth Massi

Showcasing the VSTO Power Tools… (Mary Lee)
07 April 09 03:34 PM

The latest .NET Rocks! TV video includes an interview with Beth Massi where she shows how to use the VSTO Power Tools! Also, she introduces some other minor features that you may have heard of: Open XML SDK and LINQ. Check out Beth’s summary of the video Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, VSTO Power Tools, Beth Massi

Next version of Exchange will ship with Surface in the box
01 April 09 04:47 PM

I thought you Outlook developers would like to read about the future of Exchange on their team blog .  Enjoy! Thanks to Maarten van Stam for pointing this great article out to me in his Facebook status.  -Christin Boyd Read More...

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