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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...
Specifying a Product Name, Publisher Name and other properties for VSTO solutions (Saurabh Bhatia)
11 June 08 04:04 PM
Many customers have requested how to specify options like a Product or Publisher Name for Office 2007 VSTO solutions deployed from Visual Studio 2008. However, you cannot specify these properties in the Visual Studio IDE. In this post, I will describe Read More...
Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee)
29 May 08 06:32 PM
You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package. These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks: Configure prerequisites: Read More...
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...
Adding the Office Primary Interop Assemblies as a Prerequisite in your ClickOnce installer (Mary Lee)
08 May 08 02:21 PM
When you use ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2008 to deploy your Office solution, you can include prerequisites such as the .NET Framework 3.5, the Visual Studio Tools for Office system 3.0 Runtime, and Windows Installer 3.1. However, the primary interop assemblies Read More...
Feedback Requested for VS 2008 Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)
30 April 08 06:25 PM
Have you used the new ClickOnce Publish and Deployment feature in Visual Studio 2008 for Office 2007 solutions ? If so, we need your feedback now - and we need it before May 8th (which is an internal deadline for our team)! We're working on Service Pack Read More...
Postedby VSTO Team | 10 Comments    
Deploying Departmental Solutions via Email (Christin Boyd)
20 February 08 11:35 AM
A lot of VBA developers tell me that they love VBA solutions because there is no deployment necessary. All the code lives inside the document itself, so all you need to do is get the document (in e-mail or on SharePoint) and you have everything you need Read More...
Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    
Deploying Prerequisites for Your Visual Studio Tools for Office Solution (Mary Lee)
19 February 08 01:02 PM
When you deploy your VSTO solution, you must package the following prerequisites for your end users: .NET Framework, the VSTO runtime, and the Microsoft Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs). Visual Studio Tools for Office in Visual Studio 2008 offers Read More...
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Office Developer Conference: Developing and Deploying Office Solutions with VS 2008 (Christin Boyd)
15 February 08 07:58 PM
Last Monday I presented session CLI202: Developing and Deploying Smart Clients for Office at the Office Developer Conference in San Jose. This blog post is a mini-version of the slides and demos from my session. The session was not recorded. Slide 1: Read More...
Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    
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