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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...
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VSTO Bug Tracker (Eric Carter, Beth Massi)
18 May 09 01:16 PM
Eric Carter released a sample and series of articles based on his TechEd demo last week that shows you how to bring bug data from TFS into Excel and Word using VSTO so it can be further analyzed. If you you went to TechEd but missed the session you can Read More...
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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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Video How Do I: Add Controls at Run Time in an Application-Level Project (Mary Lee)
10 March 09 08:59 AM
In Walkthrough: Adding Controls to a Worksheet at Run Time in an Application-Level Project , you can see  to add host controls at run time in an application-level add-in by using Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This video is posted to the How Do I Read More...
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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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How Do I: Deploy Document-Level Office 2007 Solutions with Windows Installer? (Mary Lee)
02 October 08 09:26 AM
In Deploying an Office solution using Windows Installer , you read how to deploy document-level Office 2007 solutions with Windows Installer.  As a follow up, you can now see how to add a Setup project to your VSTO solution and add a custom action Read More...
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How Do I: Deploy Application-Level Office 2007 Solutions with Windows Installer? (Mary Lee)
02 October 08 09:21 AM
In Deploying an Office solution using Windows Installer , you read how to deploy application-level Office 2007 solutions with Windows Installer.  As a follow up, you can now see how to add a Setup project to your VSTO solution and create registry Read More...
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How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
28 August 08 03:35 PM
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project. How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? This Read More...
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Create an Excel Shortcut Menu That Writes Selected Values to a Text File (Harry Miller)
22 August 08 01:14 PM
It doesn't take much code to add a command to a shortcut menu in Excel, but the menu objects have strange names so it's not intuitive, to me at least. The trickiest part is just sorting out how it's supposed to work, because it seems like it should be Read More...
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I Just Want to Format a Cell in My Excel Worksheet (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 08 10:41 AM
So you just want to write some code to format a cell in a worksheet. However, there isn't a help topic in sight that shows you how to do it. There may be a topic out there, but you don't have time to sift through the web searching for it. You're not alone. Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Visual Studio Command Bar for Arranging Controls on Documents and Worksheets (McLean Schofield)
10 April 08 02:05 PM
One of the lesser-known features of Visual Studio Tools for Office is the Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel command bar. When you are developing a document-level project for Word or Excel (for example, a Word Document or Excel Workbook Read More...
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