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Creating a Bootstrapper package for an Office 2013 VSTO Add-in with Visual...
UPDATE from July 2014: INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPDATING AN EXISTING BOOTSTRAPPER: On the build machine (which might be the same as your development machine), open the “product.xml” file under C:\Program...
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Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012: Now Available with Office 2013...
I’m pleased to announce that the official Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is now available to download! For VSTO developers, this release brings .NET 4.5 support and design-time support...
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Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
Note: This post is simultaneously published both to the VSTO blog and to the apps for Office blog. To learn more about apps for Office, visit http://dev.office.com. With all the buzz around the new...
View ArticleAnnouncing Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 support
For those who’ve been following the announcements at BUILD these past two days, Visual Studio 2013 Preview has now been officially released. For Office developers, the VS 2013 Preview release means...
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Announcing Visual Studio 2013 RTM
We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2013! This latest release offers many great features for developers, such as innovative IDE features like Peek and CodeLens, expanded ALM...
View ArticleVSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown and “Unknown Publisher” for...
We are pleased to announce a new version of the VSTO Runtime (10.0.50325) that addresses two important issues reported to us by customers. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using...
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Guest Post: Resources Available for VSTO Developers Wishing to Customize the...
[Guest Post by Marty Andren, Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft] As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer / Office Developer, a question I’m often asked when helping customers develop VSTO solutions is...
View ArticleVSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown on .NET Framework 4.5.2
In a VSTO Runtime release earlier this year, we addressed an issue of slow application shutdown for add-ins using WPF controls on touch-enabled devices. With the release of .NET Framework 4.5.2 two...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 3 released
Earlier today, Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released. This update offers a number of small but useful enhancements for VSTO developers: #1: Support for .NET 4.5.2 and beyond, and the de-coupling...
View ArticleVSTO Runtime Update to Address Premature WPF UI Thread Shutdown
In the VSTO Runtime released a month and a half ago (version 10.0.50701), a small regression was inadvertently introduced, which is fixed in today’s update to the runtime. The issue impacts add-ins...
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