.NET4Office
A blog by Eric Carter
Type.Missing, C#, and Word
Recently there was a little bit of a ruckus about the correct way to talk to the Word object model...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/15/2004
So what are these Host Controls you speak of?
Host controls are at the heart of the VSTO 2.0 programming model. What are they, how and when do you...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/13/2004
Bear and the berries
I talked to a Really Smart GuyTM at Microsoft yesterday about community and Microsoft's efforts in...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/10/2004
Eric Lippert
Eric Lippert, who has singlehandedly done more for purple Lucida Sans Unicode than anyone I know,...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/10/2004
Bookmark View Control
I hinted at View Controls and what they are in a previous post. I plan to blog some more about them....
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/08/2004
More ReleaseCOMObject
Siew Moi Khor, who is an awesome contributor to the Office development community, points this out...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/08/2004
Who am I
I just realized that I should maybe provide a little better idea of who I am and what I do. My name...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/07/2004
I'll be there
You may have noticed my “I'll be there” picture.. I'll be there--isn't that like a...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/07/2004
ReleaseCOMObject
Andrew Whitechapel has some interesting advise on using ReleaseCOMObject when writing managed code...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/07/2004
Data/View/Host Separation in VSTO 2
In the past, the only option an Office programmer had when developing a customized document was to...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/06/2004
When is .NET for Office?
Thomas Williams asks “When is .NET for Office..I’m sick of using VBA!” Good...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/06/2004
Some good "bad" examples and a good "good" one
WRT the problem of the abstraction bar being set wrong in the Office object model, here are two good...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/05/2004
Office Object Model Thoughts
Currently, one of the greatest obstacles faced by Office developers is the difficulty of using the...
Author: Eric Carter Date: 04/05/2004