June 2009 - Posts

Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks (Beth Massi)
25 June 09 04:34 PM

If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (MVP) up on the VSTO Dev Center . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Studio to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office tasks. It’s a good introduction Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Beth Massi, add-ins, Community, Office Development

32bit Visual Studio and 64bit Office (Christin Boyd)
11 June 09 12:44 PM

Visual Studio 2010 will ship with a 32bit version, and no 64bit version.  My team built a very smart layer into Visual Studio 2010 to enable designers and debuggers that work with 64bit Office 2010 and 64bit SharePoint Server 2010.  For a good Read More...

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Filed under: Christin Boyd, Office 14, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010

Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)
04 June 09 07:35 PM

Mary Lee recently posted a blog entry that describes Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single Installer , complete with graphics to help you visualize the process. I recently interviewed Mary to learn more about this topic, and to have her give Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Kathleen McGrath, VS2010

Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)
04 June 09 01:29 PM

One of the VSTO MVPs pointed out that in some cases his customers were unable to resolve UNC paths consistently.  When he investigated further, he found that some branch offices of an enterprise were unable to resolve the UNC path ( \\myserver\myvstoapps\installpath\ Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Deployment

Do Your Outlook UI Elements Need Counseling? - Get your Form Regions, Ribbons, and Task Panes Talking to Each Other Again (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 09 03:30 PM

So you want to open a task pane by using a button on the Ribbon. You also want a form region that appears in an e-mail item to detect the state of a control on a custom task pane so that you can add or remove an option that appears in a Ribbon menu right? Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development