VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 26th @ 10:33 AM | Comments: 0

VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office&nbsp;Ribbon

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.

Tag: VSTO

How to use a delegate

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 24th @ 4:36 AM | Comments: 3

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how to utilize a delegate in your code, using a real example where a delegate produced cleaner code.

Tag: CSharp

VSTO: The Basics

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 12th @ 9:29 AM | Comments: 1

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 action pane.

Tag: VSTO

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 2: Countdown Calendar

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 5th @ 7:54 PM | Comments: 1

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 2: Countdown&nbsp;Calendar

Jennifer Marsman will walk you through creating a simple Silverlight blog badge which promotes a conference, using Expression Blend. In Part 2, she shows you how to create a flipping clock which counts down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the conference.

Note: this webcast assumes that you have seen Part 1 of this webcast series.

Tags: Expression Blend, Silverlight, Silverlight 2

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 1st @ 1:24 PM | Comments: 1

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the&nbsp;Eye

Jennifer Marsman will walk you through creating a simple Silverlight blog badge which promotes a conference, using Expression Blend. In Part 1, she shows you how to create an animation to attract attention and create a button to take the user to the conference registration page.

Tags: Expression Blend, Silverlight, Silverlight 2

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to make an animation follow a path

Posted By: jennmar | Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 4:45 AM | Comments: 2

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to make an animation follow a&nbsp;path

In Part 3 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman creates a spotlight animation that traverses in a slow circle using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on events

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 30th, 2008 @ 9:45 PM | Comments: 1

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on&nbsp;events

In Part 2 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through wiring up animations to start based on events using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an animation

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 30th, 2008 @ 5:12 PM | Comments: 3

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an&nbsp;animation

In Part 1 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through creating DoubleAnimations and ColorAnimations using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

C# 3.0 Part 2: The Power of LINQ

Posted By: jennmar | Jun 29th, 2008 @ 11:22 PM | Comments: 3

C&#35; 3.0 Part 2: The Power of&nbsp;LINQ

Jennifer Marsman completes the code refactoring by utilizing LINQ to retrieve data. She demonstrates using LINQ to query against objects, XML, typed datasets, and SQL.

Tags: .NET 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ