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BUG: “Old format or invalid type library” error when automating Excel (Christin Boyd)
06 July 09 03:54 PM

A customer recently reported this bug when running their Shared Addin for Excel on French Windows.  Error: 0x80028018 (-2147647512) Description: Old Format or Invalid Type Library His solution worked great on English Windows, but gave errors in any Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, primary interop assemblies, VB, VBA, Office Development, Visual Studio 2010

TechEd Sessions on Office Development
07 May 09 02:16 PM

If you’re going to TechEd in Los Angeles next week, then don’t miss these four sessions: DTL03-INT Meet the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Christin Boyd, Eric Carter , Paul Yuknewicz, Jay Schmelzer, Dustin Campbell , Jonathan Aneja, Luke Hoban , Igor Zinkovsky, Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Word 2007, Excel 2007, VB, C#, VS2008, Community, Office Development, Visual Studio 2010

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

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, smart tags, VB, C#

Databinding best practices for Excel (Christin Boyd)
14 April 08 09:14 PM

I read a question on the forum about databinding in an Excel solution. The developer was asking about Excel 2003, but the answer I wrote will work for both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Here's the question: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3122341&SiteID=1&mode=1 Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Christin Boyd, Data, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, TableAdapter, DataSet, VB, C#