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Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Learn how to program Custom Task Panes and the Actions Pane. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Exploit Outlook Form Regions. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and that is what…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Get started with Word content controls. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Explore Ribbon customisation. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and that is what…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Javascript is a language that is gaining momentum every day on the web. However, it is still hard to work with especially if you are used to managed languages like C#. Now, with Visual Studio 2008, some enhancements such as intellisense  and…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Windows Forms developers do not need to throw away their code and start from scratch in Windows Presentation Foundation, simply to get a stunning UI for a particular use case of their application. In this 17' video I demonstrate how to get started…

Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs.  Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.  In this interview: Jack talks about the BCL team and…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Partial Methods is a new language feature of both C#3 and VB9, available via Visual Studio 2008 for projects targeting .NET Framework v2.0/3.0/3.5. Watch the 15' video for more. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: They say debugging is a skill and that threading is hard so when you put the two together, you have a challenge. Visual Studio 2008 has added a handful of small new featurettes to help with that. Watch the 15' video for more. Video download: Click…

One of my favorite features in .NET 3.5 is the integration work that has been done between WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation).  Check out a c9 video with that team here.  This short screencasts walks through how to consume a WCF service from a…