VSTO

In this interview, I sit down with Stephen Peters, a developer on the Office client tools team in Visual Studio. Steve shows us a couple of tricks for how you can squeeze the best performance out of Office solutions built with Visual Studio (VSTO). He also shows how to finely control the …

En este video, observaremos la manera de crear un panel para usar dentro de Word, que contendrá fragmentos de texto a los que luego de hacerles doble click podremos insertar dentro del documento a través de Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) El panel fue diseñado usando Blend 3 y aprovechando…

This video looks at improvements in the R2 version of HPCS 2008 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  Application programmability, infrastructure, and manageability have all been improved.  Enhancements to features such as active & passive brokers, file & recollect, and…

In this interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deployment action that copies a document to the end user's desktop. You can learn more in the topic Walkthrough: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce…

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how to add a button into the Office Ribbon using the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).  NOTE: the VSTO Power Tools, which were shown briefly, can be downloaded from  here. 

I've been asked many times, "How do I publish my VSTO/Office Add-in installation files to a SharePoint site?".  It's relatively straight-forward to publish to a basic web site, or to a UNC file share, but SharePoint is a slightly different beast. So, how do you publish your add-in…

It makes sense if users in your organization are using Office 2007 or 2003 to consider building your application on top of one of the many office products. Learn how in this video. What is it? Visual Studio Tools for Office is the premiere development tool for building Office Business…

Jennifer Marsman gives an introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) with simple coding demos that illustrate how to utilize Windows Forms controls in Office documents, execute code when a value in a spreadsheet changes, read and write data to a spreadsheet, and create a document…

In this interview Mary Lee, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the topic Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer and demonstrates how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the…

In this interview I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates and he sets me straight on how ClickOnce deployment and  application…