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VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Custom Task Panes
My avid readers (both of you) know that I've done quite a bit of work around Outlook 2007 Form Regions in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. If you missed those posts, you can read more about them here and here . Form Regions are a great way to add...
Posted: May 23 2007, 08:50 AM by PaulBallard | with 9 comment(s)
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MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office from the Experts Series
Yesterday I had the honor of joining such names as Ken Getz, Tim Huckaby, and Robert Green by recording a webcast for MSDN in the VSTO Straight from the Experts Series. In this webcast I demoed the FormRegionAddin templates I created for Visual Studio...
Posted: May 16 2007, 10:05 AM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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VSTO "Orcas" Ribbon Designer
Kathleen McGrath has a great blog post about her favorite feature in the upcoming "Orcas" release of VSTO, the new Ribbon Designer. The Ribbon Designer lets you extend the Office 2007 Ribbon interface with your own controls. She even includes...
Posted: May 09 2007, 11:00 AM by PaulBallard | with no comments
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RCPI Outlook 2007 Form Region Add-In Templates Released
After what seems like months but in fact has only been.... months, I'm finally ready to release what I hope will be a useful bit of code for anybody wanting to use Outlook 2007 Form Regions. The RCPI Outlook 2007 Form Region Add-Ins consist of a set of...
Vista and Office 2007 Launch Happenings...
While Windows Vista and Office 2007 are generally available to the public now, Microsoft is hosting launch events all of the USA over the next month. But last week several MVPs got the opportunity to visit local retailers and give demos and offer advice...
.NET Predictions for 2007 - The Magic 8-Ball Rides Again
While I was editor for TheServerSide.NET, one of the more fun things I got to do was to write up humorous (hopefully) articles and cartoons. I've been missing that lately so I've decided to cut loose here in blogland. So here now are my predictions...
Separating RSS Feeds from Email using Send/Receive Groups
One of the nicer new features in Outlook 2007 is the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds and read them just like emails. There's been a bit of confusion lately though about how RSS is tied to the Email Send/Receive in Outlook 2007. So for those people with...
Posted: Nov 21 2006, 12:10 PM by PaulBallard | with 1 comment(s)
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VSLive! Dallas November 14-17
It's been a pretty busy year for me in regards to speaking engagements. I just wrapped up a whirlwind tour speaking at back to back user group conferences, DevLink '06 in Nashville and the Tulsa TechFest in... well... Tulsa. Unfortunately for...
Tech-Ed 06 Demo Code - Writing Outlook Add-ins using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005
As promised, here is the source code for the demos I did during my breakout session OFC331 - Creating and Using Outlook Add-ins in Visual Studio Tools for OFfice 2005. There are two demos and each one shows different aspects of Outlook customization....
Tech-Ed 2006 - A Very Busy Week Ahead
For the past four years I've enjoyed going to Tech-Ed, Microsoft's premiere technical education conference. This might have something to do with the first one I attended combining the fun and craziness of New Orleans with meeting people who would truly...
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