Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System : Audio

Why a VSTO Runtime?

VSTO Team — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:25:00 GMT

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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

Building Office Business Applications

VSTO Team — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:47:00 GMT

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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, Excel, Word, SQL Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Office ServerDocument features.

Related links:

OBA central

Office Business Applications Developer Portal

Joanna's blog

Outlook Form Regions

VSTO Team — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:18:00 GMT

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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.

Creating Outlook Form Regions

OBAs and Office UI customization

VSTO Team — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:09:00 GMT

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Duration 20:50
Size 15 MB

Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs) and customizing the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

MSDN Magazine article by Steve and Paul: New VSTO Features Help You Customize Word And Outlook

Paul Stubbs's blog

How Mike Walker's Company Develops Office Solutions

VSTO Team — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:15:00 GMT

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Duration 19:05
Size 13.5 MB

Mike Walker, a VSTO MVP, talks about the Office solutions his company develops, and how they plan to use the new features of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Related Link:
FWBS Ltd, Mike Walker's company

Security and Deployment

VSTO Team — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:14:00 GMT

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Duration 13:23
Size 9.5 MB

Darryn Lavery talks with Christin about the changes to security and deployment in Visual Studio 2008.

Related link:

ClickOnce Deployment

Orcas and Software Testing (Chinese Language Episode)

VSTO Team — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:22:00 GMT

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Duration 9:48
Size 7 MB

In this Chinese-language episode, Mei Liang and Qiong Ou from VSTO QA provide an introduction to VSTO Orcas and software testing.

Related links:

Visual Studio Product Roadmap

Orcas Island

Audio How-to: Creating Custom Task Panes Using VSTO 2005 SE

VSTO Team — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:56:00 GMT

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Duration: 6:03
Size: 4.5 MB

In this audio how-to, Harry Miller gives some tips and tricks for creating custom task panes using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition.

Automating PowerPoint 2007 Using a Custom Task Pane

Related Help Topics:
Custom Task Panes Overview

How to: Add a Custom Task Pane to an Application

Walkthrough: Automating an Application from a Custom Task Pane

Walkthrough: Displaying Custom Task Panes with E-Mail Messages in Outlook

How to: Display Custom Task Panes with E-Mail Messages in Outlook

The Managed Add-in Framework

VSTO Team — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:05:00 GMT

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Duration 14:33
Size 10 MB

Thomas Quinn talks with Christin about the VSTO runtime and the managed add-in framework.

Related links:
Thomas Quinn's blog

Documenting VSTO

VSTO Team — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:46:00 GMT

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Duration 15:18
Size 11 MB

Christin talks with Christa Carpentiere, the documentation manager for VSTO and VSTA, about what's coming up in Help and how the docs are created.

Going to Tech·Ed 2007

VSTO Team — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:13:00 GMT

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Duration 11:00
Size 8 MB

Christin Boyd talks about the VSTO team's plans for Tech·Ed in Orlando, Florida; in Barcelona, Spain; and in Queensland, Australia.

Related links:

Tech·Ed 2007 home page

Tech·Ed 2007 Worldwide

Looking Forward to Orcas

VSTO Team — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:16:00 GMT

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Duration: 16:32
Size: 12 MB

Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about what's coming in the next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office.

Visual Studio Tools for Office Developer Center

Visual Studio Product Roadmap

Audio How-to: Customizing the Ribbon Using VSTO 2005 SE

VSTO Team — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:05:00 GMT

In this audio how-to, Harry Miller gives a basic introduction to customizing the Ribbon in the 2007 Microsoft Office system by using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition.

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Length: 5:44
Size: 4 MB

Related Help Topics:
Ribbon Extensibility Overview

How to: Customize the Ribbon

Walkthrough: Automating an Application from Controls on the Ribbon

- Harry Miller

What's in Orcas Beta 1?

VSTO Team — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:01:00 GMT

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Duration 17:00
Size 12 MB

Christin Boyd and Reza Chitsaz talk about what you can do with Visual Studio Tools for Office in the recently released Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1, including new features in these areas:

Application-level add-ins
SharePoint workflow projects
Ribbon Designer
Outlook form regions
Document-level customizations for Word 2007 and Excel 2007
Word content controls
Deployment

An Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" White Paper

Visual Studio Tools for Office forum

Connect Web site for logging feedback

What is OBA?

VSTO Team — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:44:00 GMT

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Duration 7:59
Size 7.5 MB

Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs talk about what Office Business Applications are, and how they relate to VSTO.

Elite Model Management Case Study
Problem: Elite’s booking agents had difficulty using an industry-standard software package and often created process shortcuts. In addition, Elite managers had little visibility into financial performance.

Epicor Software Corporation Case Study
Problem: Epicor sought to increase the reach of its applications to more workers and provide access to its applications within the context of daily business activities.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor Case Study
Problem: The Office of the State Auditor needed to improve the speed and efficiency of the fraud-investigation process to address a case backlog and ensure expeditious processing of future cases.