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Visual Studio can help you extend applications for the Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 systems by using Visual Basic and Visual C#. The tools include Visual Studio projects to help create Office Business Applications.

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Using AddinSpy and AS Diagnostic Tools for Microsoft Office Add-ins
AddInSpy is a diagnostic tool which discovers all registered Microsoft Office add-ins on a computer, and reports the maximum possible information about these add-ins. The tool works with all versions of all Microsoft Office applications that support... more
Andrew Whitechapel
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Word Add-ins Part 3: Search for Text Strings in Documents and Add Comments
This video shows you how to search the text in any open Microsoft Office Word document for specific strings and flag the string with a comment that contains text passed in from a calling method.
Harry Miller
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:00:00 PM

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Extra VSTO Project Templates for Visual Studio 2008
A repository of additional VSTO project templates to supplement those in Vi... more
CodePlex
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:07:13 PM
Project Reportcard
The Project Reportcard was developed as a tool to help Project Managers ass... more
CodePlex
Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:38:13 PM
.NetMap
.NetMap is a pair of applications for viewing network graphs, along with a... more
CodePlex
Monday, July 21, 2008 3:46:04 PM
Defrost Outlook
outlook 2007 sp1 freezes or hangs in some occasions.until a formal fix rele... more
CodePlex
Monday, July 07, 2008 8:08:04 AM

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Microsoft Solver Foundation - Customer Technology Preview
Microsoft Solver Foundation is a brand new framework and managed code runti... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Monday, September 29, 2008 11:37:52 AM
What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1?
This sample contains presentaion materials on some of the new features in V... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:47:24 PM
Outlook 2007 Add-in: Active Directory & CRM Resolver
This VSTO 2008 Outlook sample Add-in will show you an interesting implement... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:11:14 AM
Sample code for VSTO tutorial: Generating Invoices from a Word Template
This download provides the complete project files and source code for the t... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Monday, September 08, 2008 12:15:10 PM

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