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August 17, 2008

What’s changed in Visual Studio 2008 SP1?

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17August

Maarten van Stam has a nice tip for isolating specific changes made in SP1. Check out his post here, or just run this search and you’ll see the list of 902 pages worth of doco changes. You can then narrow that further by selecting one of the one of the Refinement options: Refining by Visual Studio Tools for Office and Visual Studio 2008 for example gives us 306 results: Speaking of VSTO related...

August 16, 2008

VSTO: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Outlook Add-in issues

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16August

By now I’m assuming most of you have downloaded and installed Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008. For those who haven’t here’s a few links you may want to note: Before installation If you’ve installed any hot fixes over the last few months you should clean them up first Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool (14 MB) (note: this replaces the original Hotfix Cleanup utility for...

August 15, 2008

VSTO: Harry Miller and the VSTO glasses

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15August

When I first started viewing this video by Harry Miller (on the Microsoft VSTO team) I started to cringe. It seemed a little over the top (and probably clashed with my general sense of Australian humour – sadly to be funny in Australia you usually need to be crude, critical or self-deprecating – just saying…) But by the time it had finished he’d won me over. The reason I really like it is...

August 3, 2008

CLARITY: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

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03August

After chatting with a few people about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) recently, it’s clear that the technology is not that well understood (even though, in my opinion, Microsoft have done a pretty good job of articulating it – much better than say OBA for example). So in this post I’m aiming to give a high level overview of VSTO and clear up some misconceptions. As usual this is...

July 30, 2008

VSTO: VBA and VSTO

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30July

As part of my preparation for presenting on VSTO (download slides here) at SBTUG this week I was asked a number of questions about how VBA and VSTO fit together. Things like: Is VSTO the VBA replacement? How do VSTO and VBA fit together? What is the benefit of learning VSTO? 10 million VBA developers? They’re important questions, after all there are reportedly 10 million VBA developers still...

July 28, 2008

VSTO: More on VS2008 SP1 enhancements

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28July

More on the upcoming SP1 enhancements for VSTO: Eric Carter delves into some of the finer details, specifically with regard to using Word document level (and Excel workbook level) functionality in Application level add-ins. Also, in case you weren’t aware of the .NET Framework Client profile, here’s a quick rundown of what is included (thanks to Justin Van Patten). As the name suggests, the...

July 27, 2008

SBTUG: This Wed 30 July 2008 – Demo Fest, Office Business Applications + VSTO

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27July

This Wednesday at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) is looking really good with five demos scheduled. Yes, five! And I think we can still squeeze in one more if there’s anyone still undecided… When: This Wed 30 July 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) More details: www...

July 26, 2008

VSTO: VS2008 SP1 enhancements

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26July

I’m putting together the final list of resources for my OBA and VSTO presentation at SBTUG this Wednesday, and I realised there’s plenty of VSTO news that I haven’t linked to of late (here’s my normal VSTO feed if you’re interested). That certainly needs to be remedied, so brace yourself for a few ‘better late than never’ link posts in the next few days :-) Back in May Christen Boyd...

May 10, 2008

Visual Basic ‘Learn’ Section continues to improve

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10May

I continue to be impressed with how Microsoft is organising and presenting their online help. The Visual Basic site is a case in point. Beth Massi highlights some of the new features coming whereby you can create your own dynamic lists – ie tailor help to just your area of interest. Neat. But even in its current format it is useful and manageable. Being interested in more of the VSTO and...

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