Office Development with Visual Studio : MODShow

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 5 (Harry Miller)

VSTO Team — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:52:09 GMT

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 minutes, 4 seconds

Related resources for more information:

Forum post: Custom task pane back color

Forum post: Use code of one add-in from another add-in

Article: Calling Code in Application-Level Add-ins from Other Office Solutions

Outlook Application.ItemSend Event

Outlook MailItem.Attachments Property

Outlook MailItem.Body Property

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 4 (Harry Miller)

VSTO Team — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:16:17 GMT

In this episode: a tip about saving and restoring the position of custom toolbars in Outlook 2007, and how to copy values from one worksheet and paste them in another. Plus, Mary finishes her Excel application and sends it to her boss in e-mail.

Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds

Related resources for more information:

Forum post: Saving toolbar positions in Outlook 2007

How to: Maintain Position Information for Custom Toolbars between Outlook Sessions

Forum post: Excel sheet CopySpecial having problem in xlPaste type

Range.PasteSpecial Method

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 3 (Harry Miller)

VSTO Team — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:01:22 GMT

In this episode: a tip about serializing data in a Word document so users can't see it, and why content controls disappear from documents if you add them at run time. Plus, Mary customizes the Ribbon in Excel so her boss Kemp doesn't need to use button controls on the worksheet itself.

Duration: 5 minutes, 29 seconds

Related resources for more information:

Serializing data and recreating content controls

Document variables property and code example

Caching data objects

How to cache data and code example

How to add content controls to documents and code example

AddPlainTextContentControl method and code example

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 2 (Harry Miller)

VSTO Team — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:14:00 GMT

In this episode: a tip about how to save a new copy of a Word document instead of saving over the original, and how to create a class in an Outlook project to access methods without hitting the object model security prompts. Plus, Mary creates a quick data UI in Excel for her boss Kemp.

Related resources for more information:

Save a new copy of a document instead of saving over the original

Create a class in an Outlook project to access methods without hitting the object model security prompts

More about accessing Outlook from John R. Durant's blog

Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 1 (Harry Miller)

VSTO Team — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:16:00 GMT

This episode has a tip about adding controls to Word documents, a case file about how Canada Post solved its data entry problems, and what to do when an add-in doesn't run and there's no error message.

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Microsoft Office Developer Show Episode 1

Related resources for more information:

Problem adding a label to a Word document

Why did this add-in stop running?

Canada Post case study