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Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:09 AM

Update Your Blog Readers, We've Moved!

The Visual Studio Tools for Office team has moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto , and the RSS feed is http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.xml . We've got a lot more team members set up to blog over there so come on over and join us! Important Links: Office
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Friday, February 01, 2008 1:31 PM

Out Loud for Outlook: Speech Recognition & Synthesis

Nathan Carlson developed a creative solution for Outlook 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas).  The Out Loud for Outlook project started as a dogfood testing project last summer.  For those of you unfamiliar with the dogfood testing
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:25 PM

The Reports of VBA's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

There’s recently been some confusing information circulating about the future of VBA in the press that we want to clear up. The report that the next generation of Office will not contain VBA is untrue – the next generation of the Microsoft
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:11 AM

VSTO Runtime Assembly Name Changes from Beta 2 to RTM

If you created a project for Microsoft Office 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you will probably see a number of broken assembly references if you open the project in the final release of Visual Studio 2008. This is because most of the assemblies
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:51 AM

Hiding and Showing an Adjoining Outlook Form Region

There is no way to show or hide an adjoining form region at run time. However, you can show and hide a custom task pane at run time. Therefore, if you need to give your users the ability to show and hide a UI panel in an Outlook item, consider using a
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:20 PM

Wanted: Feedback on the documentation

We are working on making the documentation better, but we need your help to do it right. We'd appreciate it if you could take 10 minutes to go to the Visual Studio Content Survey and let us know what you think.
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Monday, September 10, 2007 2:19 PM

Orcas Beta 2 Deployment Stories

Hi, my name is Kris Makey, I'm one of the Testers working on the VSTO team. Over the last year my area has been focused on testing the new Deployment features for "Orcas" Office 2007. It's been a rather hectic year getting every to be just right. Hopefully
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:34 AM

Updated VSTO 2005 SE runtime is available

An updated VSTO 2005 SE runtime (VSTOR.exe, build .891) is now publicly available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4468D8CB-B43E-4B09-82F6-8BA3F7B5E935 This update contains a couple of bug fixes in the area of
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:58 PM

Some customizations may stop working after an update to .NET Framework 2.0 is installed

The Common Language Runtime stores User security policy in a location based on the CLR version number. Updates to the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 update the CLR version number when they are installed, which causes the CLR to check for policy in a different
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:33 AM

Providing Feedback on Next Release of VSTO (in VS 2008 Beta 2)

I'm hoping many of you are as excited as we are about the upcoming release of VSTO - shipping in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. In this release, we'll have many new exciting features such as the ability to create custom Outlook form regions,
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Monday, August 06, 2007 9:16 AM

Video Demo: Importing an Outlook Form Region into Visual Studio

This 4-minute video demonstrates creating a form region in Outlook with controls that are bound to Outlook data, and then importing the form region into a Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Outlook add-in project. After the form region is in Visual Studio, you
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Friday, July 27, 2007 6:13 PM

Video Demo: VSTO and VBA Interop

Here's a short video that shows a new feature of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- calling from VBA in a VSTO solution document into the managed Visual Basic code in the assembly. You can find out more and download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 from the Visual
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Monday, July 23, 2007 9:25 AM

Why a VSTO Runtime?

Download the audio file Duration 9:48 Size 7 MB Thomas Quinn answers Christin's questions about why Visual Studio Tools for Office has its own runtime. Related link: Thomas Quinn's blog
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:47 PM

Building Office Business Applications

Download the audio file Duration 19:02 Size 13.5 MB Joanna Bichsel from the Office Platform Strategy team joins Steve Fox to talk about how and why to build OBAs, including lessons learned from building a sales forecasting application using SharePoint,
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:18 PM

Outlook Form Regions

Download the audio file Duration 17:08 Size 12.5 MB Mike Morton talks with Christin about using form regions to customize Outlook, and some of the new Outlook tools in VSTO that are coming in Beta 2. Related links: Creating Outlook Form Regions by Using
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