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Deploying COM Add-ins for 64-bit Office using Visual Studio (Saaid Khan for...
Nathan Halstead is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team. He is responsible for various aspects of Visual Studio extensibility, and is an avid ice hockey enthusiast. On occasion, he’s been known...
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Visual Studio 2010 RTM! New Resources, Samples, Videos, + more (Beth Massi)
Whooo hooooo! It’s been ~2 years in the making but Visual Studio 2010 has been released! This is my first full product cycle since I started Microsoft and oh what a ride! I’ve been watching live...
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Using Team Build with VSTO – Made Easier! (Tobi Kral, Aaron Cathcart)
On Monday, the VSTO team released a Whitepaper documenting how to get your VSTO customizations building in a Team Build environment. No longer will you need to install Visual Studio on your build...
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Upgrading VSTO Projects to use with Visual Studio 2010 (Navneet Gupta)
The first thing that you notice after opening your existing projects in Visual Studio 2010 is the very familiar Visual Studio Conversion wizard. Internally we call it Project Migration wizard....
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Why Should I Upgrade from .Net Framework 3.5 to .Net Framework 4 ? (Navneet...
I was chatting with some of my friends about Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 and they asked me why should they move their application to .Net Framework 4, I am answering the question here for...
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Handling Sort and Filter Events in Excel (Navneet Gupta)
Recently I helped two customers that were trying to solve this problem. They wanted to get notifications whenever Excel sorted or filtered data. This is not as easy as it sounds because Excel does not...
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Deploying the *.Utilities assemblies by using Windows Installer (Mary Lee)
Office solutions for .NET Framework 4 have dependencies on files that are distributed in the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office runtime, but there are also files outside of the runtime that are...
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When Do I Need to Deploy the VSTO Runtime? (Mary Lee)
Aaron wrote a great article about the VSTO runtime components earlier, which explained the Office extensions for .NET Framework 3.5 and Office extensions for .NET Framework 4. He also explained that...
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Fixing Compile and Run Time Errors after Retargeting VSTO Projects to the...
Now that Visual Studio 2010 is released, some of you might be itching to upgrade your existing VSTO projects so that you can take advantage of the new features in the .NET Framework 4 that improve the...
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VSTO Performance: Ribbon Reflection (Stephen Peters)
It is very easy to customize the Ribbon in your VSTO extension. All you need to do is to add a Ribbon (Visual Designer) to your solution, and it will appear when your solution is run without needing...
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Creating an Add-in for Office 2007 and Office 2010 that "Lights Up" on Office...
Managed Office add-ins traditionally have been able to run in the targeted application (the version of the application whose PIAs the add-in references) and in later versions of the application....
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Troubleshoot VSTO Add-In Load Failures (Navneet Gupta)
We have helped many developers in troubleshooting VSTO add-in load failures. Hamed has written a very nice blog post explaining the basic steps to troubleshoot VSTO add-in load failures. Even if you...
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Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 (Navneet Gupta)
We are happy to announce that today we are releasing the Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 on Visual Studio Gallery. This Power Tool is a Visual Studio add-in that provides an...
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Sharing a Ribbon Customization Between Office Projects in Visual Studio 2010...
A customer on the VSTO forums recently noticed that the steps we blogged about for sharing a single Ribbon customization between multiple projects in Visual Studio 2008 no longer works in Visual Studio...
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Channel 9 Interview: Office Add-in (VSTO) Performance Tips & Tricks (Beth...
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...
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Deploying Microsoft Office Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows...
In Visual Studio 2010, you can use the ClickOnce and Windows Installer deployment technologies to deploy Office solutions that target both Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010. The main...
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Office 2010 PIA BootStrapper Released (Beth Massi, Lily Ma)
Today we released the Microsoft Office 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) Bootstrapper Installer which adds the Microsoft Office 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies to the Prerequisites Dialog Box in...
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Installing Office 2007/VSTO 3.0 Solutions on Computers with Office 2010 (Mary...
You have probably been reading and hearing about Microsoft Office 2010 for some months. Now, you may be wondering how much work is necessary to install your existing Office 2007/VSTO 3.0 solutions on...
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Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 - Updates Planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1...
Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience team, describes the changes to the Microsoft Help Viewer planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. He demonstrates the new functionality of the viewer...
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Performance Improvements Coming Soon to a Service Pack Near You (Stephen Peters)
With the SP1 work winding down, I thought that I’d take a moment and discuss three new performance improvements that are going into VSTO for SP1. We have listened to your feedback and understand that...
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