Office Zealot

  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 ...

February 1st Microsoft announced that they proposed acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per share, a transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock that provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders, but that's not the most important news. What's more important (<g>) is that the ...

  I think this year TechEd Developers - EMEA (Barcelona) excelled by having great sessions, great content, and lots of information. It is most likely that this happened because it also was the TechEd where Visual Studio 2008 was announced by Microsoft to be released before the end of November (and in fact when you read ...

  It's there! Today Visual Studio 2008 is released and arrived at the MSDN download sites for MSDN Subscriptions. It was announced only two weeks ago that Visual Studio 2008 would be released to MSDN before the end of November. And guess what? It is an early release as it is ready for download today November 19. I am downloading it ...

I had three weeks of quality time with my wife and kids. As I'm normally spending almost all of my time in front of my computer screen the SLA (Service Level Agreement) with the family required me to stay away from the computer and do some fun things with the family. And I did ... we did some camping and did rollercoaster rides in a few ...

  I had to do some development to move an old addin over from Office 2003 to Office 2007 and that is why I needed to edit the Ribbon XML in VSTO 2005 SE (don't forget to update). Well, doing that without the Intellisense support is a tough one to call. So a reminder to self because I keep forgetting how to get Ribbon XML Intellisense ...

  If you are developing addins for Office 2003 and you are in Vista this may be for you. Quote This update fixes an issue in add-in development for Microsoft Office 2003 using VSTO 2005 SE on Windows Vista.During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and ...

  Just a quick note to let you know that the VSTO team published four new VSTO Beta hands-on labs to MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740390.aspx.   MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 1 - Data Binding with Word Content Controls MSDN Virtual ...