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Making a Custom Group Appear in the Message Tab of a Mail Item (Norm Estabrook)
15 December 09 02:14 PM

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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Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008, Office Development, Office 2010

Using Windows Presentation Foundation and Line-of-Business Data in Microsoft Office Clients (Beth Massi)
11 August 09 04:24 PM

I mentioned on my blog yesterday that SDN Magazine made an article I wrote back in May available online -- and since it’s all about using WPF & data in a VSTO solution I thought I’d post the link up here too :-) Using Windows Presentation Foundation Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Office 2007, sample, OBA, VS2008, WPF, Beth Massi

Demonstrating how to sync Facebook events to Outlook
05 August 09 09:59 AM

Every once in a while, we learn of neat apps that have been created with the Office development tools in Visual Studio. In an Outlook 2007 add-in, Jake Ginnivan combined WPF and the Facebook API to respond to Facebook events from a Ribbon. In addition, Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Office 2007, WPF, Office 2010

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 6 Comments    

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

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

Video How Do I: Add Controls at Run Time in an Application-Level Project (Mary Lee)
10 March 09 08:59 AM

In Walkthrough: Adding Controls to a Worksheet at Run Time in an Application-Level Project , you can see  to add host controls at run time in an application-level add-in by using Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This video is posted to the How Do I Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Office 2007, Excel 2007, VS2008, SP1

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008

Setting the Width of a Drop Down, Combo Box, or Edit Box in the Ribbon Designer (Norm Estabrook)
19 December 08 10:56 AM

Recently, a developer posted a question to the VSTO forum asking us how to set the width of a drop down control by using the Ribbon Designer ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/8965ae5a-9c02-4aec-9178-675650b7044e/ ). As this person Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008

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

Updated August, 2008 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. Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 5 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2008, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile

Specifying a Product Name, Publisher Name and other properties for VSTO solutions (Saurabh Bhatia)
11 June 08 04:04 PM

Many customers have requested how to specify options like a Product or Publisher Name for Office 2007 VSTO solutions deployed from Visual Studio 2008. However, you cannot specify these properties in the Visual Studio IDE. In this post, I will describe Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 13 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Office 2007, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Publisher Name, SupportUrl, Product Name, Add Remove Programs, Office Addin Properties, Programs and Features

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#