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Will your VSTO addin run on Office 2010 64-bit? Yes, probably. (Christin Boyd) 05 August 09 03:05 PM: The Visual Studio team is designing the runtime components for Office 2010 so that your Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 .NET addins, document solutions and spreadsheet solutions will run on 64-bit Office 2010. These runtime Read More...
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Filed under: runtime, VSTO, Christin Boyd, primary interop assemblies, Office Development, Office 14, Office 2010
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...
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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, primary interop assemblies, VB, VBA, Office Development, Visual Studio 2010
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
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
Sign up for Office 2010 Technical Preview 12 May 09 10:36 AM: I’m at TechEd in LA, but it seems I could get just as much excitement just watching the Twittersphere today and watching #tela09 tags! And my feet are killing me. So be glad you’re sitting at your computer instead of walking around Los Angeles! Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, video, Community, Office Development, SharePoint, Office 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
Test Automation Tips: “User Name” dialog after new install of Word (Christin Boyd, Bill Robertson) 05 May 09 02:12 PM: We have a team of developers who focus entirely on writing test automation programs for the purpose of covering the huge matrix of test cases that Visual Studio requires. We often configure new installs of Office and our automated tests need to Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Dialog boxes, Word 2007, C#, sample
Ich bin ein VSTO 04 May 09 01:18 PM: I hope I didn’t say “I am a doughnut.” For native German speakers, you may already know about Lars Keller, a recent recipient of the Visual Studio MVP Award . When the localized Help files and documentation aren’t enough, it helps to read Read More...
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Developing for Office and SharePoint Server 2010 (Christin Boyd) 01 May 09 01:08 PM: I get a lot of questions about the future. When will Office and SharePoint release? First half of 2010. Is VSTO part of Microsoft’s long term strategy? Yes! The Office tools shipped in VS 2008 and will ship in VS 2010 with lots Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, SharePoint, Office 14, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 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
DevConnections Conference: VSTO Session Demos (Christin Boyd) 13 November 08 03:23 PM: Hi Folks! If you're not one of the 4,000 professionals attending DevConnections in Las Vegas, then never fear! You can see my demos and learn about my session "Office Development with Visual Studio 2008" from this blog entry! VS 2008 lets you target Office Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, VB, C#, OBA, VBA
VSTO and the .NET Framework Client Profile (Christin Boyd) 16 September 08 06:02 PM: One of our loyal blog readers asked if "VSTO officially supports targeting the Client Profile? I did a quick check and it seems to be working fine but it is good if we explicitly mention whether it is supported." The answer is yes. Starting in Visual Read More...
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Filed under: Christin Boyd, Office 2007, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 released! Now what? (Christin Boyd) 15 August 08 02:18 PM: Yeah! Service Pack 1 is released to the web! Now what do I do? I'd like to help you navigate the information we published about SP1. I strongly recommend that you read the VSTO section of the SP1 Readme here . You can read about all the great improvements Read More...
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Filed under: Christin Boyd, VS2008, SP1
What's New in VS 2008 SP1 and how the VSTO team decided what to include in a Service Pack (Christin Boyd, Mary Lee) 11 July 08 12:29 PM: Updated August, 2008 I'd like to give you some insight into how we decide what goes into a Service Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio. I'm speaking specifically about how the VSTO team built SP1; most other groups within Visual Studio use the same process. Read More...
Postedby VSTO Team | 5 Comments
Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2008, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile
MSDN Code Gallery launches Localized Hotfix Pages 08 July 08 12:03 PM: All of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework hotfixes that are publicly available on MSDN Code Gallery are now localized in the following languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Brazilian Read More...
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