VSTO 2005 Beta 1 Webcasts Available

Over the last month the Visual Studio Tools for Office Team has sponsored a number of informative and useful Webcasts related to Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. You can catch these recorded webcasts at:

Data Binding in Word and Excel with Visual Studio® Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 provides a potent platform and toolset that enables .NET developers to program against Word 2003 and Excel 2003. You won't want to miss this chance to find out about the wealth of .NET data binding features shipping in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005.

Actions Pane and Managed Controls in Word 2003 and Excel 2003 with Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio® Tools for Office 2005 provides considerable new functionality with regard to extending the Office user interface. In particular, VSTO provides the developer with the powerful ability to add any Winform control to the surface of an Excel Spreadsheet or Word Document, and grants access to the Document Actions Pane via the new ActionsPane object. The ActionsPane allows you to host a Windows form control within the document's actions pane easily and interact with them via your VB or C# code. We'll cover both of these exciting new additions - you can't afford to miss this webcast if you integrate with Office in your applications.

Server Document Generation in Visual Studio® Tools for Office
Currently, developers program against Office documents on the server by creating instances of the Office application and manipulating the document via the appropriate Office DOM. One of the key enhancements in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 is the new and powerful ServerDocument class, which grants the ability to work with the data on the server from within a document without having to understand the view constructs of the host application. This provides easier client side development, as well as improved performance and efficiency. In this webcast, we will explain and demonstrate how you can take advantage of the VSTO ServerDocument capabilities in your applications.

Visual Studio® Tools for Office 2005 – Open Forum
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 adds a wealth of powerful new functionality, such as hosting Word and Excel as full-fledged designers within the Visual Studio development environment, the ability to program against directly data and view objects, and the ability to create and use custom controls within the Task Pane. Learn how you can take advantage of these new features to develop solutions that integrate with the current and next versions of Word and Excel. Join Mike Hernandez and members of the Visual Studio Tools for Office team for this rare open forum opportunity, and bring those questions that have been confounding you since you started to evaluate and test the beta.

Security Implications for Word and Excel programming with Visual Studio® Tools for Office
Building secure software is high on everyone's priority list at the moment, and for good reason. While there are many sources of information for building secure desktop or Web-based applications, there is precious little documentation available that deals with the complexities of document-based customization security. We will present some commonly encountered security problems in this area and possible solutions for them using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 (VSTO). Ample time will also be allowed for answering your questions at the end of the session.