Seems like Microsoft is having a V Day, every day. Here's a run down of the main V technologies/tools: VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) Firstly, Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2008 (the current version) is Microsoft's IDE for building .NET based applications, be they Web, Desktop, Device or Microsoft Office based. Visual Studio comes in a number of different versions, grouped into three...
Rob Caron has the goods, pointing to this MSDN article that compares the VS2008 range. The MSDN page is a good summary and includes links to other areas, such as this VSTO overview.
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Daniel Moth has a bunch of videos here from his blog. They are all related to v3 of VSTO. Available on Channel9. (One of the links isn't working at the moment – I've left a comment).
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Heh – here's how to get yourself mentioned in the VSTO blog – just read too much into a product release and blog about it. People love these kinds of rumours, especially when they talk about a software company turning their back on long standing clients. Always gets attention. Thankfully this load of hokum about VBA being discontinued is not true. The VSTO blog clears it up. To be...
I’ve linked to these a bit over on my link blog last year, but I think they warrant a dedicated post here. I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with VSTO lately, and I’ve found Steve Hansen’s How To videos to be one of the best resources in getting me started. What I particularly like is that he takes interesting ideas as his sample examples. For instance: how to put a...
There’s been a number of predictions made about technology for 2008, and of course a list of disappointments for the past year. Considering that no ones really takes any of them very seriously, then why not add my own :-) Here’s my prediction:2008 will be the year that Office Business Applications go mainstream*. And by Office Business Applications (OBAs) I’m interested...
CodePlex project for transferring NASA info to Outlook.
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Brian Randall article on MSDN of building an Outlook add-in that helps track flight information.
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Outlook guru Ken Slovak has a site for Outlook 2007 Project templates.
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This MSDN article covers the architecture of VSTO version 3.
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