.NET4OfficeA blog by Eric CarterHow to Keep Visual Studio from Trying To Upgrade Office 2003 Projects- May 28, 2008 Tony Crider blogs on how you can get Visual Studio to stop bugging you to upgrade an Office 2003 project on a machine where you have Office 2007 installed.http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/28/how-to-keep-visual-studio-from-trying... In the category of interesting add-ins for Word...it's Linktacular- May 13, 2008 A VSTO add-in for Word that hyperlinks all the acronyms you've used in a Word document (and defined in a dictionary file) to Wikipedia or alternate links. http:blog.focas.net.au20080511WikipediaiseACVSTOWordAddin.aspx I thought of Amanda Silver on my team when I saw this as I recently received a mail from her that would have taken me days to read had I followed all the link-tacularness.http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/12/in-the-category-of-interesting-add-in... Office Development While You Workout- May 9, 2008 Harry Miller has done a really cool series of podcasts that you can download and listen to while you workout, drive, etc. See http:blogs.msdn.comvstoarchive20080417office-development-audio-series-1-is-now-available-harry-miller.aspx Super cool.http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/09/office-development-while-you-workout.... Inter-AddIn Communications- May 8, 2008 This is an important article to read if you've every wondered about how to get add-ins you've written to talk to other add-ins loaded in the same Office process. http:blogs.msdn.comvstoarchive20080507calling-into-a-vsto-add-in-from-a-com-smart-tag.aspx Basically, it involves the callee Add-in overriding RequestComAddinAutomationService to provide an object that caller add-ins can talk to.&160; Then the caller add-in uses the ComAddins collection off of Office Application object to find the...http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/08/inter-addin-communications.aspx Getting My Head Around Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 Object Model Changes- May 7, 2008 I'm trying to get my head around all the changes in the Outlook 2007 object model. Some good resources are found on MSDN: New Objects, Collections, and Enumerations New Members and Constants Object Model Changes Since Microsoft Office 2003 Developer Issues When Upgrading Solutions to Outlook 2007 Also, this may be helpful to someone out there.&160; I created two idl files, one with the Outlook 2003 object model and one with the Outlook 2007 object model.&160; I sorted the idl files..http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/07/getting-my-head-around-outlook-2003-t... VBA and VSTO Can Be Friends (Part III)- May 5, 2008 When we last left our heroes: We created a word document, turned on the developer tab, and recorded a macro into the word document called MyMacro We worked with the trust center to make c:vstotemp a trusted location including subfolders. We saved our word document to c:vstotempvstoandvba.docm by picking save as and saving in the macro-enabled file format (docm extension) Let's now add some VSTO code to vstoandvba.docm and see how VSTO can call VBA code. Launch Visual Studio 2008 and...http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2008/05/05/vba-and-vsto-can-be-friends-part-iii.... |