Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System : Demos

Video Demo: Importing an Outlook Form Region into Visual Studio

VSTO Team — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:16:53 GMT

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 can add managed code to handle the events, but the data is still coming from Outlook. If you create the entire form region from scratch in Visual Studio, you can't bind the controls to Outlook data.

You can find the steps and the code on MSDN:
Walkthrough: Importing a Form Region That Is Designed in Outlook

You can find out more and download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 from the Visual Studio Developer Center.

Video Demo: VSTO and VBA Interop

VSTO Team — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:13:22 GMT

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 Studio Developer Center.

Videos That Demonstrate VSTO 2005 SE Tasks

VSTO Team — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:10:00 GMT

There's a new type of technical article on MSDN called "Visual How Tos." These articles feature videos that show how to perform specific tasks, and they include short written articles with code samples or links to code samples and other examples in the documentation.

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition has six Visual How Tos right now, and by the time you read this, there will probably be more! We have a schedule to publish at least one each week through June, and probably beyond. Here are the first six:

Adding Custom Task Panes to 2007 Office Applications Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE
Automating a Word 2007 Document Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE Ribbon Support
Automating PowerPoint 2007 Using a Custom Task Pane
Binding Data to User Controls in Excel Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE
Searching the Outlook 2007 Inbox for Items with Subjects Containing Specific Words
Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE to Create PowerPoint Add-Ins

On each Visual How To page is a place to rate the video and leave comments. Please let us know what you think!

Channel 9 Video: .NET Code Access Security and Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions

VSTO Team — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:49:00 GMT

Eric Lippert, software design engineer on the Visual Studio Tools for Office Team and author of "Visual Basic .NET Code Security", recently spent some time with the MSDN Channel 9 crew to discuss VSTO and .NET Code Access security.

Here's what Eric writes about the session in his own blog:

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One year ago this week I was the Channel Nine guinea pig -- I'm still not sure why, but for some reason The Scobelizer and his cohort chose me to be the first guy interviewed for their project. (Probably because I'm mostly harmless.)

Channel Nine has succeeded tremendously, and I'm very pleased to have been a part of it at its birth. Recently Charles and Robert tracked me down and cornered me in a room with a really big XBOX screen to talk about Visual Studio Tools For Office and how we use .NET code access security.

If you've got 53 minutes to kill and you want to hear me ramble on about what I love to talk about most, check it out.

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--Christina Storm

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Demo: Creating an Excel Real Estate Locator Solution with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

VSTO Team — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:42:00 GMT

The VSTO team showed a cool Microsoft Excel demo at the Office Developer Conference held in Redmond in February 2005 at the Microsoft Conference Center.

We received a lot of positive feedback for that demo, so I went ahead and recorded it for you. In this demo, you will learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office to transform a static mortgage calculator worksheet into a rich real estate locator solution by adding data binding, user controls, a managed actions pane, and Web services.

The presentation is about 17 minutes long and the file size is 17MB. You can view this streaming video by clicking Real Estate Locator. If you prefer to view the demo offline, it can be downloaded at Demo 14 -- Creating an Excel Real Estate Locator Application.wmv.

One comment I received on this blog entry was a question about how these types of solutions would be deployed. Here is a link to our Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office deployment documentation (Beta). Please keep visiting this blog as we are also in the process of preparing a deployment whitepaper which should publish in the May/June 2005 timeframe.

Watch out for the whitepaper with solution code for this demo sometime in the June/July 2005 timeframe. You will find it on the MSDN Office Developer Center under Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.

--Christina Storm

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Demo: Estimate Solution built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Beta 1

VSTO Team — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:51:00 GMT

In the Office Developer Center on MSDN, you can now find a good selection of technical articles with sample code for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. All articles are currently available for our Beta 1 release, and we're ramping up to make new content available as soon as you can download Beta 2.

Visit the MSDN Library, click on Office Solutions Development, then Microsoft Office 2003, and you see categories for Visual Studio Tools for Office. One is for our released 2003 version, and the other for our new 2005 version, which currently contains Beta 1 technical articles.

Today, check out the Estimate solution developed by Sagestone Consulting. I have recorded a brief video clip that shows the solution in runtime mode after downloading it from MSDN and compiling it. This demo is seven minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 13--VSTO 2005 Beta 1 Estimate Solution.wmv. Note that the file size is about 4.5 MB.

--Christina Storm