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Visual Basic Code Samples added to Office 2010 Training Course
Check out these presentations, samples and hands-on labs designed to help you get started developing Office 2010 solutions with Visual Studio 2010.

Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010
Download this Visual Studio add-in which provides an easy way to parse and edit Open Packaging Convention files, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Build Visual Studio 2010 Office Development Projects with TFS Team Build 2010
Learn how to build and publish Office solutions by using Team Foundation Server (TFS) Team Build 2010 without installing Visual Studio.

Download Visual Studio 2010 today!
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a cost effective way to maintain existing applications and target the latest Microsoft platforms while increasing development productivity. Dow... more

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Recent Blog Posts

Deploying Microsoft Office Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Installer (Mary Lee, Saurabh Bhatia)
In Visual Studio 2010, you can use the ClickOnce and Windows Installer deployment technologies to deploy Office solutions that target both Microsoft O... more
Thursday, Aug 19 by VSTO Team

Visual Basic Code Samples added to Office 2010 Training Course on Channel 9
I am pleased to announce that the hands-on labs (HOLs) for the Office 2010 Training Course modules on Channel 9 have been updated to include Visua... more
Tuesday, Aug 17 by donovanf

Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in
To continue the theme of landing external data in Office 2010, I’ve taken a demo excerpt from a session I presented at a conference last week to show... more
Monday, Aug 9 by donovanf

Localized Online Samples Available for Visual Studio 2010
Product teams have been releasing samples online on Code Gallery since Visual Studio has been released. This allows us to get samples out the door out... more
Monday, Aug 2 by Beth Massi

MSDN Article: 3 Solutions for Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data in Office 2010 Add-ins
In my blog post, MSDN Webcast: Creating Microsoft Office 2010 Add-Ins Using SharePoint 2010 as a Data Source, I pointed you to the webcast discussi... more
Tuesday, Jul 6 by donovanf

Visual Studio Tools for Office Forum

Automating CasPol with Custom Actions - Sample Code
Use this code if you're deploying a VSTO solution for Office 2003. It's desirable that you read the article Depl... more
Tuesday, Sep 7

WdFindWrap.wdFindContinue: How to supress beginning/end of file dialog
I try to supress modal dialog that Word shows when end or beginning of file reached. I set the Wrap property for Fi... more
Tuesday, Sep 7

How to get the screen position of shape in slide view panel ?
Hi Guys, I use window hook to get the position of the mouse click. Point p = new Point(); GetCursorPos... more
Tuesday, Sep 7

ribbon xml image
how to add an image to the button which is created on xml ribbon? (adding an image using "image" attribut... more
Tuesday, Sep 7

excel plugin icon
i have created a SamplePlugin, after installing it in my machine; i can able to see an entry in control panel. How... more
Tuesday, Sep 7

System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException
Hello, I've successfully installed my Outlook AddIn on my PC. But my colleagues get the following error message: ... more
Monday, Sep 6

Channel 9 Videos

Office Add-in (VSTO) Performance Tips & Tricks
In this interview, I sit down with Stephen Peters, a developer on the Office client tools team in Visual Studio. St... more

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... 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 p... more

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

Code Gallery Samples

ContextMenus Add-In for Office 2010
- This is an Office 2010 (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Word) COM Add-in.- It adds a butt... more

Creating OneNote 2010 Extensions with the OneNote Object Model
Learn how to build applications and plug-ins that interoperate with data from OneNote 2007 and 2010 using the OneNo... more

Office Services Merging Word Documents on the Server Side with SharePoint 2010
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 include a new set of components called Application Services. These put a rich set o... more

VSTO Troubleshooter
This powershell script displays information that can help while troubleshooting VSTO customization.

Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 Video Series
This contains the accompanying code samples for the Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 Video Series on MSDN... more

VSTO Team Build Scripts
Scripts that are referenced by the VSTO Team Build Whitepaper and Blog entry.

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 f... more

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

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

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Documentation Generator
An add-in for Microsoft Office Excel 2007/2010 to automatically generate documentation for Microsoft Dynamics C... 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... more

Office Development Articles

Building an Office Business Application Part 4 – Generate Reports
In part 4 of this tutorial series on building Office Business Applications, learn how to take data offline and gene... more

Building an Office Business Application Part 3 – Generate Financing Information
In the third part of this popular series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn how to create an Excel... more

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 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... more

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 custome... more

Featured Library Content

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

TroubleShooting Office Solutions (Visual Studio 2010)
Contains tips for solving common problems that you might encounter when creating solutions by using the Office deve... more

How to: Upgrade Office Solutions (Visual Studio 2010)
Shows you how to upgrade an Office solution to use Visual Studio 2010.

Migrating Office Solutions to the .NET Framework 4 (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes the steps you must perform to migrate a project that targets an earlier version of the .NET framework to... more

Assemblies in the Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes the assemblies in the Office extensions for the .NET Framework 4 and the Office extensions for the .NET F... more

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Installation Scenarios (Visual Studio 2010)
Describes three ways to install the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime.

Customizing a Ribbon for InfoPath (Visual Studio 2010)
When you customize the Ribbon in Microsoft Office InfoPath, you must specify where your custom Ribbon will appear i... more

Downloads

Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010
Download this Visual Studio add-in which provides an easy way to parse and edit Open Packaging Convention files, in... more

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime
This download installs the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime, which is required to run Microsoft Office b... more

Download Visual Studio 2010 today!
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a cost effective way to maintain existing applications and target the latest Micros... 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 th... 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 develop... 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 develop... more

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