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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
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. We take a few different Read More...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 5 (Harry Miller)
18 June 08 10:52 AM
In this episode: a tip about setting the background color of a custom task pane to match the Office theme, and about calling functions in add-ins from other add-ins. Plus, Mary creates an Outlook add-in that helps her remember attachments. Duration: 5 Read More...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 4 (Harry Miller)
11 June 08 09:16 AM
In this episode: a tip about saving and restoring the position of custom toolbars in Outlook 2007, and how to copy values from one worksheet and paste them in another. Plus, Mary finishes her Excel application and sends it to her boss in e-mail. Duration: Read More...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 3 (Harry Miller)
03 June 08 08:01 AM
In this episode: a tip about serializing data in a Word document so users can't see it, and why content controls disappear from documents if you add them at run time. Plus, Mary customizes the Ribbon in Excel so her boss Kemp doesn't need to use button Read More...
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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...
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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 2 (Harry Miller)
28 May 08 07:14 PM
In this episode: a tip about how to save a new copy of a Word document instead of saving over the original, and how to create a class in an Outlook project to access methods without hitting the object model security prompts. Plus, Mary creates a quick Read More...
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Common Pitfalls during PIA Deployment and Installation (Mary Lee)
20 May 08 12:05 PM
Deploying or installing the Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs) can sometimes be problematic. There are several common errors that occur when you try to deploy or install the PIAs. Deployment pitfalls A. Can I deploy the PIA DLL with my setup project? Read More...
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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 Read More...
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Deploying an Office solution using Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
10 April 08 05:39 PM
Visual Studio 2008 offers a ClickOnce deployment experience for solutions developed for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. However, if you want to deploy additional files, add extra registry keys, or use SMS, you may still be interested in creating a Windows Read More...
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Developing an add-in for multiple versions of Office (Mary Lee)
20 March 08 12:42 PM
Theoretically, you can develop an add-in for multiple versions of Microsoft Office by catering to the lowest common denominator. This means if you use an Excel 2003 add-in template in Visual Studio 2008, you would be able to develop and debug this with Read More...
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Aggregating blogs in a blog (Mary Lee)
22 February 08 07:59 AM
There are many resources to learn about Visual Studio Tools for Office, and they are scattered through blogdom and even the MSDN Library. In my one year on this team, I've collected various helpful links that I share here. The Visual Studio Tools for Read More...
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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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Visual Studio Tools for Office Build Tasks (Mary Lee)
15 February 08 08:21 AM
The Visual Studio Tools for Office build environment in Visual Studio 2008 relies on a number of MSBuild tasks used together with the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Office2003.targets and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Office2007.targets files. Read More...
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