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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

Office & SharePoint 2010 Betas Available! (Beth Massi)
16 November 09 11:05 AM

Office and SharePoint 2010 are available for MSDN Subscribers today: MSDN Subscribers: Office 2010 Beta is here. MSDN Subscribers: Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Beta is here. These versions of Office and SharePoint are compatible with the Visual Studio 2010 Read More...

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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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Filed under: Beth Massi, add-ins, Office 2010

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

Can I deploy my <Insert App Name Here> and all of its prerequisites in one file? (Mary Lee)
14 October 09 03:16 PM

One frequent customer question is about how to deploy an application and all of its prerequisites in a single .msi or .exe file. This question applies whether you are deploying any of the following: Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with dependencies on Read More...

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Filed under: Mary Lee, Windows Installer, Deployment, primary interop assemblies, Bootstrapper

Office Development with Visual Studio 2008 Tutorial Series Started (Beth Massi)
14 October 09 09:25 AM

Robert Green , VSTO MVP, has started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007! Thanks Robert!  In this first of a series of tutorials on building applications on Office you’ll learn how to create an Outlook 2007 customer appointment management Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, Office 2007, OBA, VS2008, Beth Massi, Community

Channel 9 Interview: John Durant on Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
17 September 09 11:41 AM

Robert Hess posted an interview yesterday on Channel 9 with John Durant on Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 . When you have 20 minutes you should check it out. John provides some highlights as to what he’ll be showing Read More...

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Filed under: video, Beth Massi, Community, VS2010, Visual Studio 2010, Office 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

32bit Visual Studio and 64bit Office (Christin Boyd)
11 June 09 12:44 PM

Visual Studio 2010 will ship with a 32bit version, and no 64bit version.  My team built a very smart layer into Visual Studio 2010 to enable designers and debuggers that work with 64bit Office 2010 and 64bit SharePoint Server 2010.  For a good Read More...

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Filed under: Christin Boyd, Office 14, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010

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