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• 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. Read More... Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 11:07 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Office, VSTO, RibbonX

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:11 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:13 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Office, VSTO, Demo Apps

• an IPictureDisp implementation

  Please note that this code is not entirelly mine :) I got it from a collegue who got it ... you know the story. (Thanks btw!) using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using stdole; public class RibbonImage : IPictureDisp Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:12 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Office, VSTO

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:37 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:29 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:07 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:36 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, Office, VSTO, Developer Conference

• Handling the RibbonX events and working with galleries

  One of the really cool new features of Office 2007 is the new Ribbon UI, with the corresponding extensibility model called RibbonX. While there are a few resources available describing what RibbonX is, and how to format the XML, there’s little information Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:25 PM by wouterv | (Comments Off) Filed under: Office, VSTO

• 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/2006/01/customui Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:32 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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...... Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:16 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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! Read More... Posted Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:36 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 2:43 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Office, VSTO, Developer Conference