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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
Office Development with Visual Studio 2008 Tutorial Series – Part 2(Beth Massi) 08 December 09 10:36 AM: Last month Robert Green , VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Today we published part 2 of his step-by-step tutorials. In this second part of the series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn how to create Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Word 2007, OBA, VS2008, Beth Massi, Community
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...
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Filed under: VSTO, Office 2007, sample, OBA, VS2008, WPF, Beth Massi
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
VSTO Bug Tracker (Eric Carter, Beth Massi) 18 May 09 01:16 PM: Eric Carter released a sample and series of articles based on his TechEd demo last week that shows you how to bring bug data from TFS into Excel and Word using VSTO so it can be further analyzed. If you you went to TechEd but missed the session you can Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Word 2007, Excel 2007, sample, VS2008, Beth Massi
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
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...
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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...
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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...
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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008
Why Can’t I Change the Update Path when Redeploying VSTO Solutions? (Christin Boyd, Kris Makey, Jeff Young) 16 December 08 02:45 PM: The other day I was asked about the automatic Updates feature of VSTO 3.0 deployment. In this scenario, he used the Publish Wizard in VS 2008 to create a Word document solution and the install manifest. Then a bunch of people used the Word document, and Read More...
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Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Christin Boyd, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Deployment, VS2008, Manifest, Add Remove Programs
Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi) 21 October 08 03:51 PM: A new community submitted article was just released on the Office Development with Visual Studio portal by MVP Alessandro Del Sole . In this article learn how to control the Vista operating system's speech recognition engine in .NET from a custom task Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO, Word 2007, VS2008, Beth Massi, add-ins
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...
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Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2008, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile
Deploying Office Solutions with a Setup Project (Mary Lee) 29 May 08 06:32 PM: You can now read the long awaited whitepapers about deploying Office 2007 solutions with a Visual Studio 2008 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package. These whitepapers show you how to complete the following tasks: Configure prerequisites: Read More...
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Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Deployment, VS2008

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