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MSDN Subscribers: Download the VS 2010 Release Candidate
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th, with general availability on February 10th.

Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment
Learn how to handle certificate expiration on your ClickOnce deployments in all versions of the .NET framework.

Office 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit
Download a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, source code, and instructor-led videos, that are designed to help you learn how to de... more

Building an Office Business Application Part 2 – Generating Automobile Quotes
In this second part of a series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn how to create a Word 2007 price quote generation solution using Visual Studio 2008.

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Recent Blog Posts

Add a Custom Task Pane to Project 2010 (Norm Estabrook)
Good news! Project 2010 supports custom task panes! Bad News! Getting one to appear in a Project 2010 is not so obvious.... more
Tuesday, Feb 2

VSTO 2010 Runtime components explained (Aaron Cathcart)
During development of the VSTO 2010 Runtime we added a feature, dubbed Install on Demand, to support VSTO custom... more
Friday, Jan 22

Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010 (Beth Massi)
Early last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint... more
Wednesday, Jan 20

VSTO Performance: Delay Loading and You (Stephen Peters)
There have been a couple of blog posts about delay loading VSTO addins, and with Dev10 being released soon, it’s a good... more
Thursday, Jan 7

Migrating an Outlook Solution to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 (Norm Estabrook)
Visual Studio can help migrate your Outlook solutions from .NET Framework 3.5 to the .NET Framework 4. However, you stil... more
Wednesday, Dec 16

Making a Custom Group Appear in the Message Tab of a Mail Item (Norm Estabrook)
You can add a custom group to the Message tab of an Outlook mail item. For example, here is a custom group named &... more
Tuesday, Dec 15

Visual Studio Tools for Office Forum

Qustion for smart tag on multi-language office version
Hi,I have developed smart tag by referencing the samples of msdn (old typical example, i forget the link, sorry), it wor... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

Word: inserting page x of y
Hi, I have made a table in my header, and in one of the cells, i want to insert the autotext: "Page x of y". ... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

Sql connection in FormRegion
I have a FormRegion added to an addin in Outlook 2007. Im wondering what is the best way to initialise a SQL connection... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

Receive RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER error when show WPF window in MS Project addin
Hi, I created MS Project addin with 1 button. I create and open WPF window inside button event handler. Below code of ev... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

transfer word form fields to pdf form fields programatically
Can someone help me on how to transfer the values of word form fields to pdf form fields using visual studio 2008? ... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

MS Office 2010 add-ins
Hi,What do I need to develop an add-ins for MS Office 2010(beta)? What version of visual studio should I use?... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

VSTO Form Regions problem
I had VSTO 3.0 project with 2 Form Regions for 2 different PostItem types (IPM.PostItem.Type1 and IPM.PostItem.Type2). B... more
Wednesday, Feb 10

Channel 9 Videos

Programando para Office 2010 usando WPF y Visual Studio 2010
En este video, observaremos la manera de crear un panel para usar dentro de Word, que contendrá fragmentos de texto a lo... more

Windows HPCS 2008R2 Beta1: HPC Service Oriented Programming Model
This video looks at improvements in the R2 version of HPCS 2008 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Application progra... more

MSDN Briefing November: Office Client Development
Office Client Development - Präsentation rund um Automatisierung von Word, Open XML, Word uvm. Siehe zugehörigen Blog Be... more

Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation
In this interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deploy... more

VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon
Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how to add a button into the Office Ribbon using the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)... more

Publishing an Office add-in to a SharePoint Site for Distribution
I've been asked many times, "How do I publish my VSTO/Office Add-in installation files to a SharePoint site?". It's rel... more

Tool Shed Tooltip #7: VSTO from Episode 1
It makes sense if users in your organization are using Office 2007 or 2003 to consider building your application on top... more

Code Gallery Samples

Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
This sample demonstrates how to call .NET code in a VSTO solution from VBA code and vice versa. It uses an ADO.NET Data... more

Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application
This is a series of tutorials and samples on how to use Visual Studio 2008 to build an Office Business Application using... more

Office Development in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate samples demonstrate Office 2010 development projects, tools, and techniques by usin... more

VSTO Bug Tracker
This sample demonstrates how to bring bug data from Team Foundation Server into Excel and Word using VSTO so it can be f... more

Live Framework
Live Framework Code Gallery - Code Samples for Live Framework

It's All About The Tools TV Show
Resource Page DescriptionPlease find all files used in the TV Show - Russ' Tool Shed Presents It's All About the... more

Slide Tweet
This page contains the Slide Tweet sample. Slide Tweet is an simple Powerpoint Add-In posting slide titles using custom... more

CodePlex Projects

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 you could just setup a follow-up meeting for it... more

Look4Tag
Look4Tag est un plugin Outlook qui permet de taguer les messages et de les trier au travers d’une interface ergono... more

Authoring
Tech Head Brothers Authoring Tool is a content authoring tool based on Word 2003, VSTO 2005, XML, XSLT and Windows Commu... more

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Documentation Generator
An add-in for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to automatically generate documentation for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - [... more

Inbox Zero Outlook 2007 Addins
Outlook 2007 AddIns to help getting to Inbox Zero, including an "AutoArchive Now" add in.

RSS Reader for Office
This PlugIn Enables you to add RSS Feeds to Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) so that you can view RSS Feeds whil... more

BOWIE
Bewise Outlook Work Items Extension is a vsto addin for Outlook 2007/2010 and TFS 2008/2010

Office Development Articles

Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment
Learn how to handle certificate expiration on your ClickOnce deployments in all versions of the .NET framework.

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 app... more

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.

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 bu... more

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.

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.

Featured Library Content

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

Named and Optional Arguments (Visual C# 2010 Beta2)
Simplify your code with optional and named arguments.

Changes to the Design of Office Projects that Target the .NET Framework 4 (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes the new design of Office projects that target the .NET Framework 4, and lists breaking changes to code in Offi... more

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Installation Scenarios (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes different scenarios for installing the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime and runtime components.

Upgrading Solutions from Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2003 (Visual Studio 2010)
When you upgrade a project from Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2003, Visual Studio automatically changes the pr... more

Upgrading and Migrating Office Solutions (Visual Studio 2010)
Provides links to information about the upgrade process for projects created by using earlier versions of Visual Studio.

How to: Access Office Interop Objects by Using Visual C# 2010 Features (C# Programming Guide) (Visual Studio 2010)
You can pass optional ref parameters directly, rather than declaring objects to pass to each parameter, to help simplify... more

How to: Create Smart Tags With Custom Recognizers in Word and .NET Framework 4 (Visual Studio 2010)
In .NET Framework 4 projects, you can control how Microsoft Office Word 2007 recognizes smart tags in documents by imple... more

Downloads

MSDN Subscribers: Download the VS 2010 Release Candidate
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th,... more

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 max... more

Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 significantly improve the developer experience during the development... more

Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools Released!
This release contains a set of developer tools that provide additional functionality useful in Office-based development.... more

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... more

OBA Sample Application Kits Release to Web!
If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office applications, then the OBA Sam... more

Office Business Applications Sample Application Kit for SAP 2.0
The OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP is a version 2.0 of a kit designed to help developers integrate SAP with the 2007... more

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