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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

Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks (Beth Massi)
25 June 09 04:34 PM

If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (MVP) up on the VSTO Dev Center . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Studio to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office tasks. It’s a good introduction Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Beth Massi, add-ins, Community, Office Development

Do Your Outlook UI Elements Need Counseling? - Get your Form Regions, Ribbons, and Task Panes Talking to Each Other Again (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 09 03:30 PM

So you want to open a task pane by using a button on the Ribbon. You also want a form region that appears in an e-mail item to detect the state of a control on a custom task pane so that you can add or remove an option that appears in a Ribbon menu right? Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development

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

Here is a Way to Get the ID of a Built-in Outlook Command Bar Menu (Norm Estabrook)
30 April 09 02:09 PM

Recently, a forum poster asked us how he could add a submenu item to a built-in menu item in Outlook.  Note that these are not controls that appear on the Ribbon of an Outlook item, but rather the menus that drop down from the top of the Outlook Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Command bars, Office 2007, Office 2003, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development

Clearing Off Custom Menu Items in Word (Norm Estabrook)
14 April 09 11:37 AM

Last month I posted this article that described how to prevent your add-in from creating duplicate menu items in Word.  If you have been experimenting with customization contexts, you might have several menu items that appear when you right click Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Office 2007, Office 2003, Word Object Model, Word 2007, Word 2003, VS2008, Office Development

Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio
03 February 09 11:01 AM

This week Microsoft is hosting an internal even called Tech Ready 8 in Seattle. Microsoft technical field reps and product teams come together to talk about all of the great products we're building. I presented a session on Building Office Development Read More...

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Filed under: OBA, VS2008, Beth Massi, Office Development, Rachel Schaw