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Working with VSTO TaskPanes

One of the cool new things you can do with VSTO 2005 SE is create App-Level taskpanes for the latest two Office releases (2003, and of course 2007). The basic code to demo this during various VSTO sessions takes the following form: CustomTaskPanes.Add...

Published 08-11-2006 15:52 by Anonymous

Filed under: VSTO

Which VSTO version does what?

I thought I'd make a little table: VSTO Version Office 2003 Office 2007 Additional Information doc app doc app 2003 Excel InfoPath Word Visual Studio .NET 2003 2005 Excel InfoPath Word Outlook Data Caching Server-Side Programming Integrated Designer Smart...

Published 28-09-2006 21:10 by Anonymous

Filed under: VSTO

RibbonX Updates

Savraj released some new details on RibbonX. Find information about the ID's of built in controls, download new schemas and find out about new object model capabilities.

Published 15-09-2006 23:07 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, RibbonX

Missing VSTO templates

Now is there anyone who can tell me where the document level customizations have gone? Sigh, a tip, first read the website . Now I can throw out the VSTO v3, install VSTO 2005 and then upgrade. There goes my clean laptop. (I do believe there was some...

Published 15-09-2006 17:15 by Anonymous

Filed under: VSTO

A VSTO Demo Addin: Document Snippets

While preparing for various VSTO and Open Xml related talks I needed to come up with a demo add-in which is handy for all. This is kinda difficult since VSTO solutions are there to automate and integrate your business, and it’s hard to automate...

Published 08-06-2006 7:11 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, Document Snippets, Demo Apps

Working with the stdole IPictureDisp interface in VSTO and RibbonX

I'd like to share with you a class for returning images in VSTO customizations of the Ribbon. When you check the callback signatures you'll realize that IPictureDisp is not a .NET thing. Yes... this is COM (something which will likely continue...

Published 07-06-2006 14:13 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, Demo Apps

Running VSTO on Vista

For those of you who wanted to run all the betas at the same time, you probably noticed VSTO won't install under Vista. This blog post elaborates on the why and gives a workaround. You can expect errors because it's a lot of beta and ctp code...

Published 07-06-2006 12:37 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO

Upgrading IRibbonExtensibility to beta-2

Somewhere between beta1-tr and beta-2 of Office 2007, the extensibility model of the Ribbon has been changed. Before you hooked up an event called ThisApplication.ServiceRequest, with which you can register a custom Ribbon. This time around you need to...

Published 30-05-2006 10:29 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, RibbonX

Enable intellisense for RibbonX

Here's a handy post on how to enable intellisense for RibbonX XML markup. It just registeres the right schema with Visual Studio.

Published 18-05-2006 10:07 by Anonymous

Filed under: Visual Studio, Office, VSTO, RibbonX

Microsoft Office System Developer Conference

In about three weeks time, the 6th of june, the Dutch Microsoft Office System Developer Conference will be held at the NBC located in Nieuwegein. If you're interested in the next wave of Office development be sure to attend! Mike Fitzmaurice will...

Published 17-05-2006 20:36 by Anonymous

Filed under: Open XML, Office, VSTO, Developer Conference

Renaming the built-in Ribbons

I came across a feature which might be a bug, which might be a feature, which might disappear by the time Office 2007 beta 2 arrives. If you create a RibbonX using the following mark-up: < customUI xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/office...

Published 17-05-2006 9:32 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, RibbonX

A few DevCon 2006 links

Didn't go to the Office DevCon 2006? Want to know what it is about? Here are some resources for you! See the Bill Gates & Kurt DelBene keynote In case you weren't there and would like to see the keynote by Bill & Kurt here are the links, but....

Published 06-04-2006 7:16 by Anonymous

Filed under: Open XML, Office, VSTO, Developer Conference

Get the VSTO beta!

Like I mentioned earlier, VSTO v3 will be in beta available for download. You can get it here ! Play with the nitty-gritty and see how much fun VSTO really is!

Published 25-03-2006 8:36 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO

DevCon 2006 - Day 2

Day two of the conference, this time mostly about building rich clients using Info Path, there were also some VSTO tracks. The day started with some cool information on the new ribbon interface and its extensibility model called RibbonX. Unlike the previous...

Published 24-03-2006 14:43 by Anonymous

Filed under: Office, VSTO, Developer Conference

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Working with VSTO TaskPanes

Which VSTO version does what?

RibbonX Updates

Missing VSTO templates

A VSTO Demo Addin: Document Snippets

Working with the stdole IPictureDisp interface in VSTO and RibbonX

Running VSTO on Vista

Upgrading IRibbonExtensibility to beta-2

Enable intellisense for RibbonX

Microsoft Office System Developer Conference

Renaming the built-in Ribbons

A few DevCon 2006 links

Get the VSTO beta!

DevCon 2006 - Day 2