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10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence
10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence
Learn how Visual Studio 2010 helps you avoid having to redristribute Primary Interop Assemblies which are necessary for COM Interop like with Microsoft Office solutions.
Friday, Jun 26 by Microsoft
Create an Application-Level Add-In to Automate Common Office Tasks
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 by Robert Green

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Office Development with Visual Studio Featured Library Content

Important updates and highlights of Office Development for Visual Studio content in the MSDN Library.

Features Available by Application and Project Type (Visual Studio 2008)
Describes which applications and projects are need... more
Friday, Jul 10 by Microsoft
Features Available by Office Application and Project Type (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes which applications and projects are requ... more
Friday, Jul 10 by Microsoft
How to: Change the Target .NET Framework (Visual Studio 2008)
For Visual Studio Tools for Office, the default ve... more
Friday, Jun 26 by Microsoft
Walkthrough: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation (Visual Studio 2010)
You can install document-level Office solutions by... more
Friday, Jun 26 by Microsoft

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Office Development with Visual Studio MVP Blogs

Featured MVP: Robert Green
Read Robert's article "Create an Application-Level Add-In to Automate Common Office Tasks."

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Office Development with Visual Studio Code Samples

Office Development in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 samples demonstrate Office 2007 development proje... more
Tuesday, May 19 by MSDN Code Gallery
VSTO Bug Tracker
This sample demonstrates how to bring bug data from Team Foundation Server... more
Monday, May 18 by MSDN Code Gallery
Live Framework
Live Framework Code Gallery - Code Samples for Live Framework
Friday, Mar 20 by MSDN Code Gallery
It's All About The Tools TV Show
Resource Page DescriptionPlease find all files used in the TV Show - Russ&#... more
Monday, Mar 16 by MSDN Code Gallery

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Office Development with Visual Studio Projects from CodePlex

Look4Tag
Look4Tag est un plugin Outlook qui permet de taguer les messages et de les trier au travers d’... more
Monday, May 18 by CodePlex
Authoring
Tech Head Brothers Authoring Tool is a content authoring tool based on Word 2003, VSTO 2005, XML, XS... more
Thursday, May 7 by CodePlex
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Documentation Generator
An add-in for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to automatically generate documentation for Microsoft Dyna... more
Wednesday, Apr 8 by CodePlex
Inbox Zero Outlook 2007 Addins
Outlook 2007 AddIns to help getting to Inbox Zero, including an "AutoArchive Now" add in.
Wednesday, Mar 11 by CodePlex
RSS Reader for Office
This PlugIn Enables you to add RSS Feeds to Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) so that you can... more
Saturday, Mar 7 by CodePlex

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Office Development with Visual Studio Articles

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 by Robert Green
Sample: VSTO Bug Tracker
Learn how to bring bug data from Team Foundation Server into Excel and Word using VSTO so it can be further analyzed.
Monday, May 18 by Eric Carter

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