VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like I have to it just wastes a lot of bandwidth and...
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Maurice
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05-16-2008
Filed under: .NET, LINQ, NetFx3, Workflow, VSTO, WCF, VB, DevCenter, ClickOnce, WPF, SqlCe
The recent release of the .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 beta Service Pack 1 has started an interesting discussion over on Microsoft Watch. Joe Wilcox writes about how some of these posts seem predated and about seeing some blog post before being published, under embargo, just as previously happened...
Attached are the session slides and samples from my Visual Studio Tools for Office session I did in Galway earlier today. Hope you enjoyed the presentation as much as I did Download them here . www.TheProblemSolver.nl http://wiki.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu
One of the cool new features in VSTO v3 is interoperability between VSTO and VBA code in your Office document. The basic steps are pretty simple: Create a Word document with some VBA code. It doesn't really matter what it just as long as it has some code. Save the document as a macro enabled document...
On May 3 rd GAMTUG , the Galway Area Microsoft Technology Users Group, is organizing the DDD Ireland and I will be there doing a session on Workflow Foundation in a SOA architecture and a seconds session about using the new VSTO version 3 features that ship with Visual Studio 2008. Check out the video...
Looking for more information about VS2008 and .NET 3.5? I suspect you might just be as there is a ton of new functionality and with the pace of everything coming out it isn't likely that you know it all To help learn the new stuff Microsoft has put a Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 training...
If you want to add functionality to a specific Office document a Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) ActionsPane is a very convenient way of doing so if you are a .NET developer. Each document has a single associated ActionsPane so in this respect it is very different from a custom task pane as you...
Installing MOSS 2007 is quite a bit of work and very easy to mess up if you do it in the wring order To help Tony Zink has created a very detailed series of blog posts showing the complete process. He is very detailed and has a lot of useful tips so make sure you read this before you start! Enjoy MOSS...
Using COM to automate Word from your Visual Basic application isn't very hard. Just did a sample for a friend and decided to share it. Not that the sample is very complicated or anything, quite the opposite in fact. But it does show how easy it is to get started The sample code below shows how to...
So another day at TechEd Barcelona. Not all that much to report though. I had booth duty at the Ask The Experts booth all day so didn't get to see any sessions yet. The booth was pretty quiet with not to many questions, so not much to report there. Now I am waiting for the last session slot of the...