Office Zealot

  Early this year I reviewed a new book on VSTO development for beginning and intermediate Office developers and only a week or so the book VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming was released to print and published. The book is written by Vivek Thangaswamy who besides writing is also awarded Microsoft MVP in the expertise area of SharePoint ...

I just created (well been messing around for a week now with various parts of that installer) an installer for a VSTO project privately installing the compact dlls. Everything fine until I deploy to this clean machine and the customized vsto document in a different location than the .vsto manifest (and the rest of the dlls). In that case ...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary Google decided to put the oldest internet index online from their archives: http://www.google.com/search2001.html Just for the fun I entered “VSTO” in the search box and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see that there was –no– subject related to the VSTO subject as we know it today (AKA Visual Studio Tools for ...

  If you are curious to find out what is updated in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 there is an easy search 'trick' you can use within the online MSDN library documentation. What you can do is go to the MSDN pages athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx and there you enter in the right top search box (the one that said ...

 Today my vacation came to an end. Due to the SLA I agreed on with my wife I had to store my work-notebook three weeks ago and had to promise not to use that ... or otherwise a divorce would be filed. So that was that. I survived, as you noticed, but when I wanted to use my notebook today I totally forgot where I stored ...

  It was originally planned for last friday, but to hold back the pressure for the support team to enjoy Whitsun and Mother's Day, it was rescheduled to today. The Service Pack 1 beta (remember its still the beta!) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 is officially announced at Somasegar's Weblog You can find the downloads over ...

If you are struggling to get the VSTO PowerTools to work make sure that you go and read the documents placed in the installation directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft VSTO Power Tools 1.0). I don't think I was given the option to select a directory so it is most likely the documents are in that location on your drive too. Each of the tools ...

Today a set of 9 powertools are released for download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=46B6BF86-E35D-4870-B214-4D7B72B02BF9&displaylang=en Ever get tired of typing all the 'missing' parameters when developing Office applications in C#? If that is the case make sure you download these tools to solve this and other ...