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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Download the beta today!
Wednesday, Oct 21 - Microsoft

Building an Office Business Application Part 1 - Scheduling Customer Appointments
In this first of a series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn how to create an Outlook 2007 customer appointment management solution using Visual Studio 2008.
Wednesday, Oct 7 - Robert Green

Presentation Materials Available
Download slide decks, demo scripts and code for over 40 presentations on various Microsoft technologies.
Wednesday, Oct 7 - Doug Turnure

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Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program (Beth Massi)
Wednesday, Oct 28 - VSTO Team
Visual Studio 2010: Specify advanced publishing options (Saurabh Bhatia)
Monday, Oct 19 - VSTO Team
Can I deploy my and all of its prerequisites in one file? (Mary Lee)
Wednesday, Oct 14 - VSTO Team

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Office Development with Visual Studio

how to detect programmatically whethe Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats is installed?
Sunday, Nov 8 - Velislav Nikolov
Problems with Excel Customization Deployment
Saturday, Nov 7 - Bessie Zhao
Create User Defined Function that changes the structure of an excel worksheet
Friday, Nov 6 - LozT
Embedding Excel Spreadsheet (.xls files) and Data Tables
Friday, Nov 6 - Bessie Zhao
problem with Form region (.ofs) import in VSTO 2007
Thursday, Nov 5 - vijay kumar anand
How to add/edit footers of presensations created in powerpoint 2007
Thursday, Nov 5 - VascoCosta

Office Development Articles

Using Windows Presentation Foundation and Line-of-Business Data in Microsoft Office Clients
Learn how to use WPF to present data for a better user experience in your Office solutions built with Visual Studio.
Tuesday, Aug 11 - Beth Massi

Create an Application-Level Add-In to Automate Common Office Tasks
Learn how you can use Visual Studio to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office tasks.
Monday, Jun 22 - Robert Green

Code Samples from Code Gallery

Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
This sample demonstrates how to call .NET code in a VSTO solution from VBA... Mehr
Thursday, Nov 5 - MSDN Code Gallery

Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application
This is a series of tutorials and samples on how to use Visual Studio 2008... Mehr
Friday, Oct 2 - MSDN Code Gallery

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SPlus [Outlook Add-in] Convert email thread to a follow-up Meeting Request
When you have a long email thread with many folks in it, have you wished yo... Mehr
Thursday, Jul 23 - CodePlex

Look4Tag
Look4Tag est un plugin Outlook qui permet de taguer les messages et de les... Mehr
Monday, May 18 - CodePlex

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Application-Level Samples (Visual Studio 2008)
Monday, Oct 19
Walkthrough: Adding Controls to a Document at Run Time in an Application-Level Add-In (Visual Studio 2010)
Monday, Oct 19
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview (Visual Studio 2010)
Wednesday, Sep 30

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