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How Do I: Create a Task from an Email in Outlook?
This video shows how easy it is to take action on selected items in Outlook 2007. This video shows how to create a Task from the selected email or emails in Outlook. (Length: 10 Minutes, 32 seconds)
Monday, Jun 29 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Build an Outlook Form Region to Input Time Records in Office Accounting?
This video shows how to create a "mini-OBA" that integrates Outlook with Office Small Business Accounting 2008.
Tuesday, Mar 10 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Add Controls to a Worksheet at Run Time in an Application-Level Project?
Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to add host controls at run time in an application-level add-in by using Visual Studio 2008 SP1. (Length: 6 minutes, 2 seconds)
Friday, Mar 6 by Mary R Lee

How Do I: Create and Use a Data Connection Library with InfoPath 2007?
This video shows how to use a data connection residing within a SharePoint Data Connection Library using Visual Studio 2008 and InfoPath 2007.
Tuesday, Feb 24 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Create Smart Tags in Word?
Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to create custom smart tags with custom recognizers in Word by using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. (Length: 6 minutes, 0 seconds)
Tuesday, Dec 16 by Mary Lee

How Do I: Use the VSTO Power Tools Developer Cleanup Tool?
This video shows how to use the Developer Clean-Up tool with the VSTO Power Tools. It shows how to open the Developer Cleanup Tool and use it to remove artifacts from VSTO development projects. (Length: 4 minutes 36 seconds)
Tuesday, Dec 16 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Hi-jack or Repurpose a Standard Ribbon Button's Command?
This video shows how to build a custom Ribbon that replaces a standard ribbon button's functionality. (Length: 13 minutes 11 seconds)
Tuesday, Dec 9 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Use VSTO Power Tools SharePoint Workflow Package Generator?
This video shows use the SharePoint Workflow Package Generator VSTO Power tool to generate a SharePoint solution package that can be used for installation. (Length: 7 minutes 28 seconds)
Tuesday, Nov 18 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Use the VSTO Power Tools Ribbon ID Tool Window?
This video shows how to find ImageID for Office Ribbon icons using the RibbonID VSTO Power Tool. It shows how to open the RibbonID tool window in Visual Studio, use the tool to browse for available images, search for images and assign an image from the RibbonID tool window as the image for a RibbonButton control. (Length: 4 minutes 23 seconds)
Tuesday, Nov 11 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Deploy the Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies?
This video create a VSTO deployment package that will install the Office 2007 PIAs if they are not already on the user's system. This demo shows how to specify deployment prerequisites using a VSTO project's Publish settings. (Length: 3 minutes 24 seconds)
Tuesday, Nov 4 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Access Form Region Controls with Code?
This video explains how build two Outlook Form Regions and access form region controls from a custom Ribbon. It shows how to create a custom form region in Visual Studio, how to create a custom form region with Outlook's form designer and how to change form region control properties for access within the project. (Length: 15 minutes 30 seconds)
Tuesday, Oct 14 by Ty Anderson

Deploying Excel Document-level Customizations with Windows Installer
Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to deploy their Excel 2007 document-level solutions with Windows Installer by using Visual Studio 2008. (Length: 6 minutes, 33 seconds)
Tuesday, Sep 30 by Mary Lee

Deploying Excel Application-level Add-ins with Windows Installer
Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to deploy their Excel 2007 application-level add-ins with Windows Installer by using Visual Studio 2008. (Length: 5 minutes 13 seconds)
Tuesday, Sep 30 by Mary Lee

How Do I: Customize the Outlook Reading Pane?
This video explains how to build a custom form region that replaces the default reading pane in Outlook. This demo shows how to create a custom form region, add a button to the reading pane and how to change the message class of an Outlook Item. (Length: 22 minutes 12 seconds)
Tuesday, Sep 23 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Use Outlook to Create a Custom Task Report?
This video explains how build a custom HTML task report in Outlook using the default tasks folder. (Length: 23 minutes 44 seconds)
Monday, Sep 22 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Optimize Performance in a VSTO Application?
Make sure your VSTO applications perform up to their potential by understanding how the implementation choices can affect your application’s performance. (Length: 9 minutes 9 seconds)
Tuesday, Sep 2 by Steve Hanson

Creating Outlook 2007 Form Regions Using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0)
Learn how to create a Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 form region by using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (3.0).
Monday, Sep 1 by Steve Hansen

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks?
Learn how to add smart tags to Microsoft Office Excel by using a document-level customization or an application-level add-in. (Length: 13 minutes, 19 seconds)
Friday, Aug 29 by Kathleen McGrath

How Do I: Use the Outlook Storage Item to Store Add-In Data?
Join Ty Anderson as he explains how to hide data you want your add-in to use, but want to keep hidden from the user. This demo shows how to create a StorageItem Outlook item, add properties and set their values and how to retrieve a hidden StorageItem and read its values. (Length: 13 minutes 16 seconds)
Tuesday, Aug 19 by Ty Anderson

How Do I: Look Up Data in an Excel List Object?
An alternative to using ServerDocument or CustomXMLParts for caching data in Excel is to simply store data on a hidden or very hidden worksheet. One of the benefits of this method is that you can employ all of Excel’s built-in functionality for sorting, filtering, or looking up data. In this video, Steve Hansen demonstrates a technique for performing lookups in an Excel list object. (Length: 14 minutes 58 seconds)
Monday, Aug 4 by Steve Hansen

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