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Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program (Beth Massi) 28 October 09 09:46 AM: If you missed it, Office announced a compatibility program to help IT and developers who have built add-ins make a seamless upgrade to Office 2010. We want you to have a successful and seamless migration to Office 2010 for your VSTO solutions. The Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010: Specify advanced publishing options (Saurabh Bhatia) 19 October 09 03:31 PM: I have previously posted how you can specify various properties for a VSTO solution like the Publisher and Product Names by tweaking a few files in Visual Studio 2008. With Visual Studio 2010 ( Beta 2 ) you can edit these properties directly through the Read More...
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Filed under: ClickOnce, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Publisher Name, SupportUrl, Product Name, Add Remove Programs, Office Addin Properties, Programs and Features, add-ins, 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
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
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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Filed under: Norm Estabrook, Command bars, Office 2007, Office 2003, Word 2007, Word 2003, add-ins, Office 14, Office 2010
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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Diagnosing/Troubleshooting Office Add-ins with AddInSpy (Beth Massi) 02 October 08 02:22 PM: If you missed the announcement on the VSTO Developer Portal , the team released a tool called AddInSpy that helps diagnosing problems with Office Add-ins. Andrew Whitechapel talks about it on his blog here . Also check out and download the VSTO Power Read More...
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Filed under: VSTO Power Tools, 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
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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Filed under: Harry Miller, Word 2007, video, add-ins
Word Add-ins Part 2: When Add-ins Collide (Harry Miller) 05 September 08 12:43 PM: When you build an add-in project, it installs the add-in on your development computer. Even if you close that project and start another, or even close Visual Studio entirely, all add-ins you have built will still run when you start the Office application Read More...
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Filed under: Harry Miller, video, build process, add-ins

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