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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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, primary interop assemblies, VB, VBA, Office Development, Visual Studio 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

New "How Do I" Video on Creating Smart Tags in Word (Beth Massi)
18 December 08 09:00 AM

Our very own Mary Lee has got a new video up on the Dev Center on programming smart tags in with custom recognizers in Word using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This is a video version of the How To topic in the MSDN library . Watch or download the Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, Word 2007, smart tags, VB, video, Beth Massi

DevConnections Conference: VSTO Session Demos (Christin Boyd)
13 November 08 03:23 PM

Hi Folks! If you're not one of the 4,000 professionals attending DevConnections in Las Vegas, then never fear! You can see my demos and learn about my session "Office Development with Visual Studio 2008" from this blog entry! VS 2008 lets you target Office Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, VB, C#, OBA, VBA

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Excel 2007, VB, video, SP1, Kathleen McGrath

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Command bars, McLean Schofield, Harry Miller, Excel 2007, VB, video

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, smart tags, VB, C#

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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Filed under: VSTO, McLean Schofield, smart tags, VB

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Christin Boyd, Data, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, TableAdapter, DataSet, VB, C#

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Deployment, VB, C#, sample, VS2008, MSI