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Channel 9: New Features for VS2008 Office Projects in SP1 (Beth Massi)
29 August 08 01:17 PM

I just posted an interview with Kris Mackey on Channel9 . Kris is a Developer on the Office Client team. Here he shows us a couple new features of Office projects in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . First he demonstrates a new error logging feature that will Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, SP1, Beth Massi

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
28 August 08 03:35 PM

With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project. How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? This Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VSTO, Excel 2007, VB, video, SP1, Kathleen McGrath

Create an Excel Shortcut Menu That Writes Selected Values to a Text File (Harry Miller)
22 August 08 01:14 PM

It doesn't take much code to add a command to a shortcut menu in Excel, but the menu objects have strange names so it's not intuitive, to me at least. The trickiest part is just sorting out how it's supposed to work, because it seems like it should be Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Command bars, McLean Schofield, Harry Miller, Excel 2007, VB, video

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 released! Now what? (Christin Boyd)
15 August 08 02:18 PM

Yeah! Service Pack 1 is released to the web! Now what do I do? I'd like to help you navigate the information we published about SP1. I strongly recommend that you read the VSTO section of the SP1 Readme here . You can read about all the great improvements Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Christin Boyd, VS2008, SP1

Activating a Custom Tab on the Ribbon When a Document Is Opened (Harry Miller)
12 August 08 05:36 PM

A lot of people would like to do this. It makes sense that a developer would want to select the custom tab automatically, if the controls that are most useful for the current document are all on that tab. This video goes in-depth about this programming Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Ribbon, Harry Miller, video

Automatic project conversion / migration (Harry Miller)
24 July 08 05:47 PM

By default, Visual Studio automatically converts Office 2003 projects into Office 2007 projects when you open the project, if you have the 2007 Office system installed on your development computer. But you can change that default behavior. Resources Forum: Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Harry Miller, video, migration

Removing Customization Code Before E-Mailing a Document (Harry Miller)
18 July 08 06:54 PM

When you create a document-level customization for a document, all the copies of the document will be customized too. Even if you save a copy of the document with a different name, when the document is opened it'll try to find and run the code. All the Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: runtime, Harry Miller, sample, video

Your feedback wanted: Improving Deployment for Office Document Solutions
16 July 08 10:18 AM

Our team is looking for feedback on how we can improve the deployment experience for VSTO document solutions. We are interested in hearing how you deploy your Excel spreadsheet/template and Word document/template solutions today & what sorts of improvements Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Deployment, feedback

What's New in VS 2008 SP1 and how the VSTO team decided what to include in a Service Pack (Christin Boyd, Mary Lee)
11 July 08 12:29 PM

Updated August, 2008 I'd like to give you some insight into how we decide what goes into a Service Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio. I'm speaking specifically about how the VSTO team built SP1; most other groups within Visual Studio use the same process. Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Mary Lee, Christin Boyd, Office 2007, Deployment, VS2008, SP1, .NET Framework Client Profile

Assembly Could Not Be Found or Could Not Be Loaded (Harry Miller)
10 July 08 11:54 AM

This video tells the story of someone who created an Excel 2003 workbook project in Visual Studio 2008.  No matter what configuration he tried on the client machine, he got this error when opening the workbook: The assembly could not be found or Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: runtime, Harry Miller, Deployment, video

MSDN Code Gallery launches Localized Hotfix Pages
08 July 08 12:03 PM

All of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework hotfixes that are publicly available on MSDN Code Gallery are now localized in the following languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Brazilian Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Resources, MSDN, Christin Boyd, sample

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...

Postedby VSTO Team | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Harry Miller, Word 2007, video

WPF in Office Solutions (Harry Miller)
25 June 08 07:01 AM

A few months ago, Andrew Whitechapel wrote an article and sample application that demonstrates combining the native capabilities of an Office client application with the UI capabilities of WPF. Behind the UI, the application is connected to remote data Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: McLean Schofield, Harry Miller, sample, video, WPF

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 5 (Harry Miller)
18 June 08 10:52 AM

In this episode: a tip about setting the background color of a custom task pane to match the Office theme, and about calling functions in add-ins from other add-ins. Plus, Mary creates an Outlook add-in that helps her remember attachments. Duration: 5 Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Mary Lee, Harry Miller, video, MODShow

Specifying a Product Name, Publisher Name and other properties for VSTO solutions (Saurabh Bhatia)
11 June 08 04:04 PM

Many customers have requested how to specify options like a Product or Publisher Name for Office 2007 VSTO solutions deployed from Visual Studio 2008. However, you cannot specify these properties in the Visual Studio IDE. In this post, I will describe Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 7 Comments    

Filed under: ClickOnce, VSTO, Office 2007, Deployment, Manifest, Saurabh Bhatia, Publisher Name, SupportUrl, Product Name, Add Remove Programs, Office Addin Properties, Programs and Features