In this interview, I sit down with Stephen Peters , a developer on the Office client tools team in Visual Studio.
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Channel 9 Interview: Office Add-in (VSTO) Performance Tips & Tricks (Beth Massi, Stephen Peters)
Channel 9 Interview: Office Add-in (VSTO) Performance Tips & Tricks (Beth Massi, Stephen Peters)
VSTO Troubleshooter
This powershell script displays information that can help while troubleshooting VSTO customization.
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VSTO Troubleshooter
BCS Solutions in Outlook
If you’ve read Brad Stevenson’s post Types of Solutions then you’re already familiar with the three types of BCS solutions: Simple Out-Of-Box Solutions Intermediate Declarative Solutions Advanced Code-Based Solutions This post will discuss the different types of BCS solutions possible in Outlook 2010. Simple solutions can be created using out-of-box capabilities, by simply clicking the “Connect to Outlook” button in the ribbon of a SharePoint External List
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BCS Solutions in Outlook
Fixing Compile and Run Time Errors after Retargeting VSTO Projects to the .NET Framework 4 (McLean Schofield)
Now that Visual Studio 2010 is released, some of you might be itching to upgrade your existing VSTO projects so that you can take advantage of the new features in the .NET Framework 4 that improve the Office development experience . Or, you might have already started using Visual Studio 2010 to develop a VSTO project targets the .NET Framework 3.5, and now you want to switch over to the .NET Framework 4
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Fixing Compile and Run Time Errors after Retargeting VSTO Projects to the .NET Framework 4 (McLean Schofield)
Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 3 (Beth Massi)
A couple months ago Robert Green , VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Yesterday we published part 3 of his step-by-step tutorials.
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Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 3 (Beth Massi)
Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010
Last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. Recently I started releasing articles that show how to upgrade the VS2008 version to VS2010: Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010 Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010 Today I updated the sample with some more goodies including some SharePoint 2010 web parts that I’ll write about soon
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Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010
Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010
Last post I showed how to migrate our Northwind Outlook client to .NET 4 and Office 2010 . This Outlook Add-in displays order history information in an adjoining form region so sales associates can see that data immediately when communicating with customers. When we originally built this with Visual Studio 2008 , we used a WPF user control to display the data so that we could better match the look and feel of Outlook 2007
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Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010
Announcing the Release of the December 2009 CTP for the Open XML SDK
I’m really happy to announce the 4 th CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! There were four major improvements we made to the SDK: Full support for the Office 2010 Open XML formats Office 2010 schema and semantic level validation General improvements based on a recent Open XML SDK usability study Open XML SDK tools improvement Full Support for the Office 2010 Open XML Formats With the latest CTP you are able to create, edit, and consume Office generated Open XML formats for either Office 2007 or Office 2010.
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Announcing the Release of the December 2009 CTP for the Open XML SDK
Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 2
Last month Robert Green , VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Today we published part 2 of his step-by-step tutorials.
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Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 2
Building an Office Business Application Part 2 – Generating Automobile Quotes
In this second part of a series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn how to create a Word 2007 price quote generation solution using Visual Studio 2008.
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Building an Office Business Application Part 2 – Generating Automobile Quotes