Office Zealot

Some time ago I hit a somewhat strange issue where I opened one of our existing projects targeting Office 2010, .NET 4 Client in Visual Studio 2010 and moved this project forward to Visual Studio 2012. After the migration I did not see the Office templates in the Add New Item dialog in Visual Studio 2012. When adding a ‘new item’ to the project ...

Today a rollup update for Visual Studio 2010 for Office Runtime 4.0 that was auto-magically released November 13th has been deployed to (at least one of) my machines. This rollup fixes about four issues with the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime and one fix in particular of a bug that I found and posted on ...

  I just received an email and I have been awarded the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding ...

  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 ...