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Tips

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

• Using TFS to manage distributed teams

  Microsoft Visual Studio the latest version of Team Foundation Service (TFS) is packed with features that facilitate the coordination and management of distributed teams.  Continue Reading

• Using search engines effectively in Visual Studio 2010

  Visual Studio provides a number of handy search tools. The most obvious place to use search is in your source code but Microsoft has also made search available in other parts of the IDE like the ToolBox and property grid windows.  Continue Reading

• Setting up the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010

  Nothing stirs up controversy like discussing naming conventions or code styling. Learn some configuration settings for the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2010.  Continue Reading

• Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office?

  VSTO has been integrated with Visual Studio 2008. It just takes a bit of digging to determine what VS 2008 editions actually contain Visual Studio Tools for Office.  Continue Reading

• On migrating from VBA to VSTO

  The release of Visual Studio 2008 provides further compulsion to migrate applications from VBA to VSTO. Microsoft addressed some best practices for these types of migrations at DevConnections Las Vegas.  Continue Reading

• VSTA: How lightweight can you get?

  Visual Studio Tools for Applications helps ISVs and other developers customize applications buildtaround Office 2007. Here we take a closer look at VSTA.  Continue Reading

• Using 2007 Office System Tools for Visual Studio 2005

  Visual Studio 2005 now sports a set of tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Ed Tittel takes a look at the tools that are available and what can be done with them.  Continue Reading

• Using Office 2007 Ribbon UI development tools

  Blogger Bil Simser has put together a list of the toolkits that are available for developing Office 2007 "Ribbon"-style user interface elements in applications.  Continue Reading

• The Actions Pane: Ch. 15 of Visual Studio Tools for Office

  This book excerpt shows how to use VSTO to customize the Actions Pane, which blends Office 2003's Document Actions and task pane.  Continue Reading

• Migrating add-ins from VBA to VSTO

  Many enterprises have stuck with VBA solutions because of legacy applications. A recent MSDN tip shows what developers can gain by migrating to Visual Studio Tools for Office.  Continue Reading

• How to customize the Office 2007 Ribbon

  A recent two-part tutorial on MSDN shows developers how to customize the Ribbon, Office 2007's streamlined answer to the current myriad of drop-down menus, toolbars and task panes.  Continue Reading

• Using Microsoft Office as a development platform

  Office is no longer just an application suite. It's now a development platform. Here we weigh its growing pains and its familiarity to .NET developers.  Continue Reading

• Chapter Download: Introduction to Office Solutions

  This chapter comes from "Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Word, Excel, Office and InfoPath," the latest book in the Microsoft .NET Development Series.  Continue Reading

• Integrate mainframe transactions with Visual Studio

  This VS add-in makes it incredibly easy to integrate mainframe functionality into Windows computers.  Continue Reading