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Office 2010 Beta & SharePoint 2010 Beta Now Available to the Public (Beth Massi)
18 November 09 10:54 AM

Monday Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta were released to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Today it was announced at PDC that these are available to the rest of the public! Come and get it… Office 2010 Beta SharePoint 2010 Beta These Betas are compatible with Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Beth Massi, VS2010, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 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...

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

Will your VSTO addin run on Office 2010 64-bit? Yes, probably. (Christin Boyd)
05 August 09 03:05 PM

The Visual Studio team is designing the runtime components for Office 2010 so that your Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 .NET addins, document solutions and spreadsheet solutions will run on 64-bit Office 2010.  These runtime Read More...

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Filed under: runtime, VSTO, Christin Boyd, primary interop assemblies, Office Development, Office 14, Office 2010

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...

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

Quick Videos of Visual Studio 2010 Features (Beth Massi, Mary Lee)
03 August 09 11:38 AM

If you’ve missed them, Kathleen has been interviewing writers on various documentation teams on some of the new features going into Visual Studio 2010. Our own Mary Lee now has a couple video interviews posted on new VSTO features that you should check Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, video, Kathleen McGrath, Beth Massi, VS2010

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...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Excel 2003, Excel 2007, primary interop assemblies, VB, VBA, Office Development, Visual Studio 2010

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

Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)
04 June 09 07:35 PM

Mary Lee recently posted a blog entry that describes Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single Installer , complete with graphics to help you visualize the process. I recently interviewed Mary to learn more about this topic, and to have her give Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Mary Lee, Kathleen McGrath, VS2010

Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)
04 June 09 01:29 PM

One of the VSTO MVPs pointed out that in some cases his customers were unable to resolve UNC paths consistently.  When he investigated further, he found that some branch offices of an enterprise were unable to resolve the UNC path ( \\myserver\myvstoapps\installpath\ Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Deployment

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

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...

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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...

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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

Test Automation Tips: “User Name” dialog after new install of Word (Christin Boyd, Bill Robertson)
05 May 09 02:12 PM

We have a team of developers who focus entirely on writing test automation programs for the purpose of covering the huge matrix of test cases that Visual Studio requires.  We often configure new installs of Office and our automated tests need to Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Dialog boxes, Word 2007, C#, sample

Ich bin ein VSTO
04 May 09 01:18 PM

I hope I didn’t say “I am a doughnut.”  For native German speakers, you may already know about Lars Keller, a recent recipient of the Visual Studio MVP Award .  When the localized Help files and documentation aren’t enough, it helps to read Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Christin Boyd, Community