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April 2006 - Posts

InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK)

Posted Saturday, April 29, 2006 7:12 AM by maarten
The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK) is designed for solution providers (SPs), value-added resellers (VARs), and other developers who are interested in developing solutions with InfoPath 2003 and InfoPath 2003 Service Pack Read More...
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VSTO 'Bible' now in Visual Basic edition

Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 3:54 AM by maarten
In October last year I wrote in my blog that I finally received the book Visual Studio Tools for Office Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook and InfoPath . If you have read some of the user comments you know that some buyers are disappointed in having bought Read More...
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Technorati

Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:16 PM by maarten
Another fun link I found this time thanks to Peter's new Blog environment is Technorati. With this tool you can check how your blog is linked from other sites. Have a look at it and check your own blog. Read More...
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Remove customization from CURRENT document

Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:10 PM by maarten
Up until today I was under the assumption that it was not possible to remove the customization from a document other than using the ServerDocument.RemoveCustomization interface. I have been asking around for a way to remove the customization from the Read More...
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Exercise 6: Adding Custom Form Regions

Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:38 PM by maarten
Exercise 6 in the VSTO 'v3' March CTP walkthrough is the most complicated of all walkthrough items. Not that it is a difficult item but you have to do a lot of plumbing and have to keep track before you get it to work. The fun thing of this walkthrough Read More...
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Exercise 5: Multiple Ribbons

Posted Saturday, April 15, 2006 10:12 AM by maarten
Exercise 5 in the VSTO 'v3' March CTP walkthrough is an exercise where you create an Outlook add-in with multiple custom ribbons. Depent on the day of the week in the host application conditional behavior of a ribbon button is implemented. In this exercise Read More...
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Exercise 4: Synchronizing Ribbon and Task Pane

Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:00 PM by maarten
Excercise 4 in the VSTO 'v3' March CTP walkthrough shows you how to interact with the Custum TaskPane en the Ribbon. This is an example of how to programmatically create the Custom TaskPane instead of using the designer. Getting used to editing the XML Read More...
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Exercise 3: Adding Ribbon Customization

Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 6:01 PM by maarten
Excercise 3 in the VSTO 'v3' March CTP walkthrough is an example on how to add your own Ribbon Customization in your addin. I think there is some work to do here, you have to do some plumbing basics to make it all work. On the other hand, if you know Read More...
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VSTO 'v3' Exercise 2: Adding Custom Task Panes

Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 5:11 PM by maarten
When you are looking at the VSTO 'v3' March CTP walkthrough you have to be aware of a tiny change in bullet 8 in Excercise 2. Be sure you add the two lines to your UserControl code instead of the Application code(the application code is also using the Read More...
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MVP informal meeting with Karen Young - Regional Manager EMEA

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:21 AM by maarten
We had a great dinner in some Italian restaurant called “La Grotto“ in Utrecht, Netherlands. It was a fun time and we must re-do this some time in the future! Read More...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2: Now Available as a Free Download

Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:09 PM by maarten
Only a couple of days ago I blogged about creating my VSTO 'v3' testing environment using Virtual Server 2005 R2 and now Microsoft decided to provide the product as free download! Make sure you try it, it's a great product to quickly switch scenarios! Read More...
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Windows Vista Capable

Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:55 PM by maarten
Is your machine Windows Vista Capable? Here is the logo designed to get sticked on Vista machines... Read More...
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Building VSTO 'v3' Development Environment

Posted Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:43 PM by maarten
One of the things in developing in Beta, CTP and other 'not finished' software is the trouble you have to go through rebuilding your dev environments all the time. This time I want to try a new thing based on an excellent article I found written by Andrew Read More...
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