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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...
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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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...
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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New How Do I Video on VSTO Power Tools (Beth Massi)
12 November 08 11:43 AM
They just released a new video on the VSTO Portal and Office Dev Center that I thought I would particularly call out because it works with one of the VSTO Power Tools that the team released in February. In this video Ty Anderson shows how to find an ImageID Read More...
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PDC Sessions Online (Beth Massi)
11 November 08 02:02 PM
Even if you missed PDC, you can still watch the sessions and comment on the content on http://microsoftpdc.com . Here's a few of the great sessions that were presented that I recommend watching: Office Business Applications: Enhanced Deployment Under Read More...
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How Do I: Deploy Document-Level Office 2007 Solutions with Windows Installer? (Mary Lee)
02 October 08 09:26 AM
In Deploying an Office solution using Windows Installer , you read how to deploy document-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 add a custom action Read More...
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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...
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 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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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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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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