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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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WPF in Office Solutions (Harry Miller)
25 June 08 07:01 AM
A few months ago, Andrew Whitechapel wrote an article and sample application that demonstrates combining the native capabilities of an Office client application with the UI capabilities of WPF. Behind the UI, the application is connected to remote data Read More...
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Calling Into A VSTO Add-in From a COM Smart Tag (McLean Schofield)
07 May 08 01:38 PM
My last post explained some of the differences between VSTO smart tags (that is, smart tags that you implement in a document-level solution for Word or Excel by using VSTO) and COM smart tags (that is, smart tags that you create by implementing COM interfaces Read More...
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Understanding VSTO Smart Tags and COM Smart Tags (McLean Schofield)
02 May 08 12:09 PM
The document-level projects for Excel and Word in VSTO (in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008) provide a simple object model that you can use to create smart tags for documents and workbooks. A smart tag is a string that an Office application recognizes 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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Word Object Model: Getting Information from Word Dialogs (McLean Schofield)
19 February 08 04:03 PM
Although VSTO provides many features that help simplify Office development (especially UI development), nearly every VSTO solution needs to dip into the underlying Office object model to get some work done. Because information about using the Office object Read More...
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