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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 by Robert Green
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 by 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 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
Sample: Northwind Office Business Application
Learn how to expose line-of-business data using ADO.NET Data Services as well as interact with it in Outlook, Word, Excel and SharePoint 2007.
Tuesday, Apr 28 by Microsoft
Simplify OBA Development With Interop API Extensions
To introduce you to VSTO Power Tools Office interop API extensions, we’ll walk through the development of an application that automates Outlook, Excel, and Word.
Monday, Nov 24 by Andrew Whitechapel, Phillip Hoff, and Vladimir Morozov
Deploying Solutions for the 2007 Office System with ClickOnce Using Visual Studio 2008 Professional
Learn to use the ClickOnce deployment technology to deploy Microsoft Office-based solutions built with Visual Studio 2008 Professional.
Monday, Nov 24 by Robert Green
Getting Started (Visual Studio Tools for Office)
This information will help you get started using Visual Studio Tools for Office to develop solutions that take advantage of Microsoft Office 2003 and the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Tuesday, Nov 18 by Microsoft
Developing Interfaces in Outlook 2007
Learn how to customize the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 user interface using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
Saturday, Nov 1 by Ryan Bedell, Steve Hansen
Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Learn how to control the Vista operating system's speech recognition engine in .NET from a custom task pane in Microsoft Word 2007.
Tuesday, Oct 21 by Alessandro Del Sole
Accessing and Using a Mapping Web Service from a Custom Task Pane in Word 2007
Create a Microsoft Office Word 2007 add-in that includes a custom task pane which is launched by a ribbon button. The task pane connects to the Microsoft TerraService mapping Web service and allows you to insert the map into a Word document.
Wednesday, Oct 1 by Microsoft
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
Calling a Code Converter Web Service from a Custom Task Pane in Word 2007
Create a Microsoft Visual Studio project that combines the utility of a Web service with the familiar user interface of Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Monday, Sep 1 by Microsoft
Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.3.1
Learn about and download an updated set of project wizards for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that automate the generation of COM shims for managed shared add-ins.
Friday, Aug 1 by Microsoft
Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 includes tools for Office that allow developers to build custom components, such as add-ins, for Microsoft Office System applications writing managed code. See how you can create a custom task pane for Microsoft Word 2007 and how to inte... more
Thursday, Jun 12 by Alessandro Del Sole
Using VSTO Power Tools
Learn about the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools, a set of developer tools designed to complement Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Wednesday, Jun 4 by Andrew Whitechapel
Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Solution for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Using Windows Installer (Part 2 of 2)
Learn how to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 add-in or document-level solution using a Visual Studio 2008 setup project to create a Windows Installer package that targets the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Saturday, May 31 by Wouter van Vugt, Ted Pattison
Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Solution for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)
Learn how to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 add-in or document-level solution using a Visual Studio 2008 setup project to create a Windows Installer package that targets the 2007 Microsoft Office system
Saturday, May 31 by Wouter van Vugt, Ted Pattison
Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services
This article shows how to build a solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Excel 2007, and how to create user-defined functions for Excel Services that enable information workers to build dynamic dashboards by consuming data from Web services.
Tuesday, Apr 1 by Bhushan Nene, Scot Hillier
Office Business Application for Sales Proposal Document Management
Learn how to use the Microsoft Office platform to create a custom solution that allows multiple users to collaborate on the creation of a sales proposal response document.
Friday, Feb 29 by Joel Krist
Integrate Office Outlook 2007 and PeopleSoft Using Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0
Learn to use the 2007 Microsoft Office System to extend the Office client and integrate PeopleSoft business data into the context of an information worker's everyday experience.
Tuesday, Feb 26 by Steve Fox
Building Office Business Applications Using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0)
This article shows how to take advantage of Visual Studio 2008 to easily build and deploy customized Office Business Applications.
Tuesday, Jan 1 by Erika Ehrli Cabral, Steve Fox
How Do I: Bind Data to Word 2007 Content Controls Using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0)
Take advantage of the benefits offered by content controls in Word 2007, such as document protection, document structuring, drag-and-drop content control creation, drag-and-drop content control creation with data binding, an improved event model, and rich... more
Saturday, Dec 1 by Steve Hansen
Build Office-Based Solutions Using WPF, WCF, And LINQ
Visual Studio® 2008 introduces an array of new features aimed at a wide range of customer solution types. Now you can build a Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) solution that uses Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation... more
Saturday, Dec 1 by Andrew Whitechapel
VBA Interoperability with Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0)
Learn how to make Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) an integrated part of your Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for the Office system (3.0) project.
Thursday, Nov 1 by Steve Hansen

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