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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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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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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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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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My Word Add-In Creates Duplicate Menu Items. Make it Stop! (Norm Estabrook)
06 March 09 12:33 PM
So I want my add-in to place a custom command into the shortcut menu. The shortcut menu is that cool menu that appears when you right-click a document. Great, so I read some articles in MSDN, write some code, run the add-in and voila there it is! I give Read More...
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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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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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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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Word Add-ins Part 3: Search for Text Strings in Documents and Add Comments (Harry Miller)
10 September 08 02:49 PM
You can search the text in any open Microsoft Office Word document for specific strings if you put the code in an application-level add-in. When you find an instance of the string, you can perform some action on it. This video shows how to flag the string Read More...
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Word Add-ins Part 1: Clear the Ribbon Except for My Controls (Harry Miller)
02 September 08 06:48 PM
You can easily customize the Ribbon to show only the controls you want to display. This video shows how to clear the Ribbon in Microsoft Office Word so it contains only a single button. The button inserts a graphic into the open Word document at the cursor Read More...
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Catching Save or SaveAs in Word 2007 (Harry Miller)
03 July 08 02:57 PM
You can override Ribbon commands and run your own code for Save or Save As, or you can simply cancel attempts to save a document in the DocumentBeforeSave event handler. Code and resources: Forum post: Microsoft Word 2007 Disable Save As Temporarily Repurpose Read More...
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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...
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Visual Studio Command Bar for Arranging Controls on Documents and Worksheets (McLean Schofield)
10 April 08 02:05 PM
One of the lesser-known features of Visual Studio Tools for Office is the Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel command bar. When you are developing a document-level project for Word or Excel (for example, a Word Document or Excel Workbook Read More...
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