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Demo: Creating an Excel Real Estate Locator Solution with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

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The VSTO team showed a cool Microsoft Excel demo at the Office Developer Conference held in Redmond in February 2005 at the Microsoft Conference Center.

We received a lot of positive feedback for that demo, so I went ahead and recorded it for you. In this demo, you will learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office to transform a static mortgage calculator worksheet into a rich real estate locator solution by adding data binding, user controls, a managed actions pane, and Web services.

The presentation is about 17 minutes long and the file size is 17MB. You can view this streaming video by clicking Real Estate Locator. If you prefer to view the demo offline, it can be downloaded at Demo 14 -- Creating an Excel Real Estate Locator Application.wmv.

One comment I received on this blog entry was a question about how these types of solutions would be deployed. Here is a link to our Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office deployment documentation (Beta). Please keep visiting this blog as we are also in the process of preparing a deployment whitepaper which should publish in the May/June 2005 timeframe.

Watch out for the whitepaper with solution code for this demo sometime in the June/July 2005 timeframe. You will find it on the MSDN Office Developer Center under Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.

--Christina Storm

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  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2005
    Excellent video Christina, I have posted a news item to let our readers know about it on TheServerSide.NET.

    Thanks,
    Paul Ballard
  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2005
    That's just impressive. What is the deployment scenerio like for these applications? Especially if you had references to other class libraries? Do you deploy the xls, doc, etc with the libraries? Are the libraries embedded somehow?
  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2005
    Would be great to be able to download the video to look at it offline. I am spending lots of time in trains, so without any connection.
  • Anonymous
    April 03, 2005
    Any chance you could post a zip file with the source to this demo?
  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2008
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