.NET4Office
A blog by Eric Carter
Updated Instructions for Writing User Defined Functions for Excel in .NET
I updated a very popular blog post I made several years ago with some little additions and...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/04/2008
VSTO Book now available in Chinese
Jie Wang shared these photos with me of the VSTO book now translated into Chinese. Thanks to...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/03/2008
Fun with OLEView to Discover What's New in Office 2007
I'm working on a revision to my book for Office 2007 and one of the things I did for the original...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 03/28/2008
VSTO Power Tools
We've just announced a cool set of power tools for VSTO 3.0. These are some really cool add-ons to...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 02/21/2008
Using the Ribbon Designer in Visual Studio 2008
There's a great little screencast by Daniel Moth that shows how to use the Ribbon Designer in Visual...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/18/2007
Ribbon Screencast using Visual Studio 2008 Ribbon Designer
There's a nice screencast to check out that shows how to use the Ribbon designer and use built in...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/11/2007
Webcast with Ken Getz talking VSTO
A great .NET Rocks! webcast featuring Ken Getz talking about VSTO 3.0....
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/09/2007
In the "you never know what they're going to build" category
A ribbon add-in for Word written using VSTO (Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2) that displays baseball...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/08/2007
IPictureDisp and System.Drawing.Image
Check out this great post by Andrew Whitechapel on this issue which comes up all the time in Office...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/31/2007
Outlook Extensions Made Easy With Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available today and with it, a new age of Office development begins....
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/27/2007
Great News for Outlook Developers
Great news for Outlook developers--Microsoft has just an online reference and guide to the Outlook...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/26/2007
VSTO Deployment Gets Easy
Paul Stubbs blogs about how easy we made deployment in VSTO Orcas....
Author: Eric Carter Date: 05/26/2007
I got my VSTO in your VBA--no you got your VBA in my VSTO
Check out a screen cast on channel 9 that shows how VSTO Orcas will enable you to easily create...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 05/09/2007
VSTO Live Search
Paul Stubbs has created a cool little custom Windows Live search page that searches VSTO related...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/25/2007
Cool Visual Tour of Orcas Office features
Daniel Moth posts a cool little Visual Tour of some of the Orcas Office features.
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/23/2007
A VSTO-Powered Outlook and Flickr Mashup
I briefly mentioned a demo app built within my team that integrates Outlook with Flickr (I think I...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/18/2007
VSTO "OBA OF THE DAY"
Some people responded to my "OBA/Office Mashup" post with some descriptions of OBAs that they had...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/17/2007
VSTO installation Choices
Joel Reyes posts about the various VSTO SKUs and what project types you get with what SKUs. The...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/16/2007
OBA's/Office Mashups
Mary Jo Foley blogs today about an Oracle 2 OBA (Office Business Application) competition. If you...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/12/2007
Groovy Diagram of the Office 2007 System Logical Architecture
There's a groovy diagram of the Office 2007 System Logical Architecture available here. The only...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/12/2007
InfoPath 2007 and VSTO 2005 SE or VSTA
InfoPath is a great tool in the VSTO toolkit. There are two ways you can write managed code behind...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/12/2007
Getting Ribbon XML Intellisense in VSTO 2005 SE
Here's a tip--to get Ribbon XML Intellisense working in VSTO 2005 SE, copy the file \program...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/10/2006
The launch of VSTA (Visual Studio Tools for Applications)
KD Hallman, general manager of my team, announced today the availability of Visual Studio Tools for...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/09/2006
Using BindingNavigator in VSTO
So it seems like I'm continually doing a VSTO demo in Excel where I add a data source (Northwind...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/08/2006
Virtual Side Video Talking About VSTO 2005 SE
Here's a video I taped at TechEd about VSTO 2005 SE for the "Virtual Side"--a kind of channel9 style...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/07/2006
Using WPF controls inside a VSTO ActionsPane or CustomTaskPane
Mario Szpuszta showed a cool demo yesterday with WPF controls inside a VSTO 2005 ActionsPane for a...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/07/2006
VSTO 2005 Second Edition available for download now! Eric Rudder Keynote at TechEd
Just came from Eric Rudder's keynote. Office & VSTO were featured in the main keynote demo. Eric...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/07/2006
Off to TechEd Barcelona
So I'm heading out to TechEd in Barcelona tomorrow. We will be launching VSTO 2005 SE there and I'll...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 11/03/2006
Simple Outlook 2007 VSTO 2005 SE add-in that shows ItemContextMenuDisplay and Table usage
Someone on the team was looking to use VSTO 2005 SE to display a context menu in Outlook 2007 when...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/09/2006
Articles on VSTO 2005 SE
Jesse posted a comment which is worth elevating to a blog post: "Hey, read your VSTO C# book (all...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 10/09/2006
Channel9 on VSTO SE
There are two new videos posted to Channel 9 about VSTO Second Edition, one from Thomas Quinn an...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 09/22/2006
Offline and the "CONFIG FILE" Issue
A reader posted this question to me: "I developed an Outlook plugin... I add the application...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 09/22/2006
VSTO 2005 Second Edition Beta: Add-ins for Office 2007 and Office 2003
So the big announcement today--ok, excluding the announcement of Zune and Wii--is the availability...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 09/14/2006
On-demand webcast on VSTO Offerings for Office 2007
You can now view the webcast I gave this month talking about VSTO futures in particular the future...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 08/23/2006
Guest Post by Iouri Simernitski: Inserting an image into a Word file from VSTO
Editor's note: This is a guest post by Iouri Simernitski, a developer on the VSTO team. Recently...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 08/02/2006
Office Developer Conference Videos now on the Web!
Didn't get to go to the Office Developer Conference this year? Well, good news, all the videos of...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/31/2006
Office Developer Conference Videos now on the Web!
Didn't get to go to the Office Developer Conference this year? Well, good news, all the videos of...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/31/2006
How to deploy, setup, install, configure, and otherwise get your VSTO solutions onto users machines
I don't ever remember blogging about this and it strikes me as a huge omission from this site. If...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/25/2006
Interviewing and "Being Excellent"
Ade Miller, a development lead on my team, has a nice blog entry about interviewing for a job at...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 07/10/2006
Updated Office Citizens List
I've updated my list of Office Citizens that have blogs you should check out. My list of links is...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/27/2006
COM Shim Wizard for IDTExtensibility (Shared Addins) Now Available for Visual Studio 2005
I've blogged before about the need for shimming non-VSTO shared managed add-ins. Misha Shneerson and...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/23/2006
COM Shim Wizard for IDTExtensibility (Shared Addins) Now Available for Visual Studio 2005
I've blogged before about the need for shimming non-VSTO shared managed add-ins. Misha Shneerson and...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/23/2006
VSTO Troubleshooter Tool
If you've ever had trouble getting a VSTO solution running on a machine, there is now a tool that...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/22/2006
VSTO v3 CTP and WinFX Beta 2
Some of you have asked how to get the VSTO v3 CTP (available at...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/21/2006
A VSTO release to support Office 2007 will ship this year--a free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 called "Cypress"
KD Hallman, the General Manager for the Visual Studio Tools for Office team, just announced...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 06/09/2006
VSTO 'v3' CTP for Office 2007 Beta 2
The VSTO 'v3' CTP for Office 2007 Beta 2 is available now. Start playing with Office 2007...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 05/24/2006
VSTO Solutions wanted for compatibility testing
We are currently looking for real-world applications built with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 05/05/2006
Creating a Ribbon for Access with VSTO 'v3' CTP and Office 12 Beta 1 Technical Refresh
Kathleen has posted another video showing the VSTO 'v3' CTP and how to create a VSTO add-in that...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 05/04/2006
New Visual Basic 2005 Edition of VSTO book
I'm really excited to announce that the Visual Basic edition of the VSTO book is now available. For...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/26/2006
Bill Gates announces availability of the VSTO "v3" Community Technology Preview (CTP)
Today at the Office Developer Conference in Redmond, Bill Gates announced the immediate availability...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 03/21/2006