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Office Development with Visual Studio 2008 Tutorial Series Started (Beth Massi)
14 October 09 09:25 AM
Robert Green , VSTO MVP, has started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007! Thanks Robert!  In this first of a series of tutorials on building applications on Office you’ll learn how to create an Outlook 2007 customer appointment management Read More...
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...
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...
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...
Making a Custom Ribbon Appear Only for a Custom Outlook Form (Norm Estabrook)
28 January 09 12:09 PM
Many of you have posted questions to the VSTO Forum about how to make custom tabs, groups and controls appear only in cases where the user opens a custom form in Outlook. The reason why that is difficult to accomplish is because there is no way to specify Read More...
Making a Custom Group Appear in the Message Tab of a Mail Item (Norm Estabrook)
09 April 08 09:49 AM
You can add a custom group to the Message tab of an Outlook mail item.  For example, here is a custom group named "MyCoolGroup" that I added to the message tab of a new message: Outlook lets you open a message in the following two modes: Read More...
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Share a Ribbon Customization between Office Applications (Norm Estabrook)
10 March 08 01:01 PM
We have received feedback from several folks that they would like design one Ribbon by using the Ribbon visual designer, and then re-use that same Ribbon in more than one Office application. This approach makes sense. If my custom tab looks the same for 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...
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Out Loud for Outlook: Speech Recognition & Synthesis (Nathan Carlson)
01 February 08 01:34 PM
Nathan Carlson developed a creative solution for Outlook 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). The Out Loud for Outlook project started as a dogfood testing project last summer. For those of you unfamiliar with the dogfood testing practice at Read More...
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