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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

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

Deploying Office 2003 Solutions with Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
17 December 08 03:08 PM

You may want to develop Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for several reasons. Your customers are using Microsoft Office 2003. Your customers are using both Microsoft Office 2003 and the Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Office 2003, Deployment, C#, MSI, add-ins

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

How Do I: Deploy Application-Level Office 2007 Solutions with Windows Installer? (Mary Lee)
02 October 08 09:21 AM

In Deploying an Office solution using Windows Installer , you read how to deploy application-level Office 2007 solutions with Windows Installer.  As a follow up, you can now see how to add a Setup project to your VSTO solution and create registry Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Excel 2007, Deployment, C#, MSI, video, add-ins