VSTO

Bill Gates at the Office Developer Conference

Frank — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:37:00 GMT

In this Channel9 interview backstage at the Office Developer Conference, Bill Gates talks about Office as a development platform and his ideas on what the future of Office office holds.

Interesting to note is how he mentions keeps mentioning Tablet-related tech: including OneNote, Touch, Natural Input and Surface.

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Extending VBA with VSTO

Frank — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:31:00 GMT

Following up on last night's meeting of CapArea.NET where Scott Lock talked about VSTO, MSDN has an article on extending VBA code with VSTO.

The article even gets into some of the hairier VSTO issues as deployment and is a good companion piece to last night's presentation.

Technorati tags: VSTO, VBA, CapArea, MSDN

Video Interview from TechEd: Paul Stubbs

Frank — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:32:00 GMT

Last week at Tech Ed, I bumped into Paul Stubbs, Senior Program Manager on the VSTO team. I talked to him briefly about VSTO and his book VSTO for Mere Mortals.

Technorati tags: Tech Ed 2007, Tech Ed, VSTO, Paul Stubbs

Videos and Sample Code for Office Developers

Frank — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:59:00 GMT

Erika Ehrli says that Office developer resources are popping out just like popcorn.

She may be right, check out the list of resources to come out just in the last few weeks.

Title	Authors	Publishing Date
Visual How to: Writing a Filter Consumer Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using Excel Services	Joel Krist	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How to: Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	Joel Krist	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How to: Saving Ranges as Custom Building Blocks in Word 2007 Documents	Joel Krist	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How to: Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE to Create Add-Ins with Custom Task Panes in PowerPoint 2007	Ken Getz	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How To: Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE to Create PowerPoint Add-Ins	Ken Getz	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How To: Searching the Outlook 2007 Inbox for Items with Subjects Containing Specific Words	Ken Getz	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How To: Office Open XML Formats: Inserting Values into Excel 2007 Cells	Ken Getz	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Visual How to: Creating User Prompts in Access 2007	Joel Krist	Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Visual How to: Running Commands When Inserting a Building Block in Word 2007	Joel Krist	Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Visual How To: Configuring IntelliSense with CAML files when developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	Ted Pattison	Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Pass the popcorn! :)

Technorati tags: VSTO, Office 2007, Office Development

VSTO Live Search

Frank — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:44:00 GMT

Perhaps one of the most frustrating aspects of working on a VSTO project is the lack of documentation and the sheer confusion between VBA and VSTO in a Google search for a particular term or object name.

Now, Paul Stubbs has stepped up to the plate and created a custom Live.com search that indexes only VSTO related blogs and documentation.

Try out the search right now.

[found via Eric Carter]

Technorati tags: VSTO, Live, CustomSearch

RibbonX: An API for Creating Custom Office 2007 Ribbons

Frank — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:16:00 GMT

MSDN has an article on RibbonX, an API for creating custom Office 2007 UI ribbons.

RibbonX already has quite a following and its own portal.

Technorati tags: Office Development, Office 2007, RibbonX, Custom Ribbons, API, Microsoft, Developer

VSTO for Mere Mortals Video

Frank — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:01:00 GMT

Tonight at the bookstore, I saw VSTO for Mere Mortals on the shelf.

Kathleen McGrath and Paul Stubbs are doing a video series to coincide with the release of the book.

The videos are short and sweet and provide a great into point into the world of VSTO.

These two videos are the first in the a series and hopefully, there'll be more coming out soon.

Technorati tags: VSTO, Office Development, Microsoft, VSTO SE, Paul Stubbs, Kathleen McGrath, VSTO for Mere Mortals

Creating Custom Task Panes in Office 2007

Frank — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:36:00 GMT

Speaking of Office 2007, MSDN has a great article on Creating Custom Task Panes in Office 2007.

Technorati tags: Office 2007, Custom Task Panes, VSTO, Office Development, Microsoft, .NET

50 Ways to Kill Excel

Frank — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:17:00 GMT

Paul Simon never sang about it, but apparently there must be Fifty Ways to Kill Excel.

The article spends three pages explaining the problem, but has an announcement in big, bold letters for those who are all too familiar with the hazards of Office customization:

If you're already knee-deep in this problem, and only interested in force-killing Excel, then skip to page 4 now.

This line was surely put in to limit the amount of stress-related fatalities in the Office Development world. ;)

Technorati tags: VSTO, Excel, Office Development, Kill Excel Process, .NET Development, Microsoft, Paul Simon

WPF Controls in VSTO

Frank — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:57:00 GMT

Now that ~~WinFx~~ .NET 3.0 is out, we can use WPF in our solutions without having to convince clients to use Beta software.

You can even integrate WPF into VSTO solutions as well.

Here's a great blog post on how to use WPF controls in an actions pane.

Technorati tags: VSTO, WPF, Avalon, .NET, .NET 3.0, Office Development, Microsoft