April 2007 - Posts
I've been using the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP release for the past three weeks; in particular I've been evaluating the VBA/VSTO interoperability feature. This feature allows you to expose VSTO code to the VBA environment. The experience is definitely
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What does your programming environment look like? Do you stick with the defaults or do you change it up? For the past ten years I've used a light grey background with blue for keywords, black for identifiers, red for plain text and operators, and teal
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There is an interesting post in the VSTO forum about VBA/VSTO/VSTA. The question is: "Is VSTO/VSTA intended to replace VBA?" http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1461382&SiteID=1 The future of VBA and VSTO/VSTA's role continues to
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Be sure to put your name in the hat for an Acer Ferrari laptop to be given away on April 27. We've got some other swag to give away too including a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate! Register at http://www.officezealot.com/register.aspx . Prize winners will
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If Fox Day has any meaning to you (sorry stefox - not your day, but you can still enjoy it!), I'm sure you're reflecting on the great memories you have of Fox Day as a student at Rollins College . Fox Day is a cherished tradition at Rollins where the
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And so the journey begins... After 3 years developing primarily on a desktop, I've decided to reverse course and see if I can be happy with a laptop as my primary computer. I am also making the jump to Vista now too. After analyzing what's available and
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Continuing in the Office Zealot tradition of VSTO MVP's Chris Kunicki and joining OZ blogger Maarten Van Stam , I was recently awarded a Microsoft MVP related to my work with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Thanks to everyone involved in the process
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