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Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
Office 2010 provides enhancements for developers such as expanded platform services, increased tools productivity, and reduced time to solution delivery.

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Download the beta today!

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.

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Office 2010 Beta & SharePoint 2010 Beta Now Available to the Public (Beth Massi)
Monday Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta were released to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Today it was announced at PDC that the... lebih
Wednesday, Nov 18

Office & SharePoint 2010 Betas Available! (Beth Massi)
Office and SharePoint 2010 are available for MSDN Subscribers today: MSDN Subscribers: Office 2010 Beta is here. MSDN... lebih
Monday, Nov 16

Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program (Beth Massi)
If you missed it, Office announced a compatibility program to help IT and developers who have built add-ins make a seaml... lebih
Wednesday, Oct 28

Visual Studio 2010: Specify advanced publishing options (Saurabh Bhatia)
I have previously posted how you can specify various properties for a VSTO solution like the Publisher and Product Names... lebih
Monday, Oct 19

Can I deploy my and all of its prerequisites in one file? (Mary Lee)
One frequent customer question is about how to deploy an application and all of its prerequisites in a single .msi or .e... lebih
Wednesday, Oct 14

Office Development with Visual Studio 2008 Tutorial Series Started (Beth Massi)
Robert Green, VSTO MVP, has started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007! Thanks Robert! In this fir... lebih
Wednesday, Oct 14

Visual Studio Tools for Office Forum

Can't pass parameters with a UDF
Hello,I have tried to make my own udf with the instructions from Eric Carter's post "Writing user defined functions... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

VSTO 2005 SE add-in implemented as an Rtdserver and UDF for Excel 2007
Many moons ago, I implemented an Excel RTDServer as a COM dll. When I discovered UDFs I introduced an interface consisti... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

microsoft.office.interop.outlook.dll CSLID error
I all, maybe by the title you may figured out what is my problem. the real deal is, that I wrote an XBAP application to... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

Catching Office Application Minimize and Maximize Event
Hallo,I'm using Office 2003 + VS 2008+Windows XP. I want to catch Office's Application minimize and maximize event. I ha... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

how to drag and drop the date from the excel custom pane to excel active cell or work sheet in vsto
Hi,I have a application like creating a custom pane in the excel 2007 using vsto. I added a custom pane i.e., user contr... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

Outlook 2003 add-in System.BadImageFormatException
Hey everybody, I created an outlook add-in for office 2003. In the Startup event I am creating an unmanaged C++ COM Com... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

How can I set Outlook tasks to read-only programmatically?
Hi,Does anyone know if its possible to set Outlook task to read-only programmatically?Thanks in advance!Regards, mati... lebih
Tuesday, Nov 24

Channel 9 Videos

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... lebih

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)... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

VSTO: The Basics
Jennifer Marsman gives an introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) with simple coding demos that illustrate... lebih

Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer
In this interview Mary Lee, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the topic Walkthrou... lebih

Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE
In this interview I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

Office Development in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 samples demonstrate Office 2010 development projects, tools, and techniques by using the .NET... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

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

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... lebih

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

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

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 - [... lebih

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... lebih

BOWIE
Bewise Outlook Work Item Extension is a vsto addin for Outlook 2007

Office Development Articles

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... lebih

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.

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, Exce... lebih

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... lebih

Featured Library Content

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

Application-Level Samples (Visual Studio 2008)
This section contains sample applications that demonstrate how to use Visual Studio Tools for Office to create applicati... lebih

Walkthrough: Adding Controls to a Document at Run Time in an Application-Level Add-In (Visual Studio 2010)
You can add controls to any open Microsoft Office Word document by using an application-level add-in. This walkthrough d... lebih

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview (Visual Studio 2010)
To run solutions that are created by using the Microsoft Office development tools in Visual Studio 2010, end user comput... lebih

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview (Visual Studio 2008)
To run solutions that are created by using Visual Studio Tools for Office, end user computers must have the Visual Studi... lebih

Office Solutions Development Overview (Visual Studio 2010)
Provides background information for developing Office solutions in Visual Studio.

Office Documents in the Visual Studio Environment Overview (Visual Studio 2008)
Describes how document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office projects work with the Visual Studio integrated development... lebih

Global Access to Objects in Office Projects (Visual Studio 2010)
When you create an Office project, Visual Studio automatically generates a class named Globals in the project. You can u... lebih

Downloads

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Download the beta to... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

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.... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

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... lebih

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