Office Development with Visual Studio : Kathleen McGrath

Quick Videos of Visual Studio 2010 Features (Beth Massi, Mary Lee)

VSTO Team — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:38:55 GMT

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 out:

If you like reading better than watching videos, here are the walkthroughs in the MSDN library:

For more resources and information on how to download the VS2010 Beta, visit the Visual Studio Developer Center.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)

VSTO Team — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:35:12 GMT

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 a demonstration of some of the tasks described in this post.

If you’ve often wondered who’s hidden behind that motorcycle helmet, be sure to check out the video!

See video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

I will be posting additional interviews, demonstrations, and featured Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 content on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen.

-- Kathleen

Learning about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Mary Lee)

VSTO Team — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:29:23 GMT

To learn more about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, Kathleen McGrath is highlighting new documentation about these products with a weekly blog post and a daily tweet. If you want to learn more about the new features and scenarios, check out her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen and her twitter feed at http://twitter.com/kathleenmcgrath.

Mary Lee, Programming Writer.

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)

VSTO Team — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:35:00 GMT

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 video is based on the topic: How to: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks, where you can get the code and follow along step-by-step.