Articles: Customizing the Office Ribbon
Just came across the series of articles on Customizing Office Fluent Ribbons for Developers which covers all the customizing options that are available for Deve...
Tag: Concepts
Awesome article on VSTO
Just came across an awesome article on ‘Visual Studio Tools for Office‘ written by Craig Bailey in his blog CraigBailey.net. Its a brief story of VS...
VBA Vs VSTO – An interesting study
I started developing add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE and have developed my first add-in for Outlook 2003. Our old add-ins are developed using VBA. Now, my job is to a...
Common Pitfalls during PIA Deployment and Installation
Just found the following in Mary Lee`s blog. Keeping it here hoping that it would reach more people who are in need of it. Deploying or installing the Office pr...
Another work around for slow loading of vsto add-ins
Hi Just came across another work-around for slow loading of add-in. Add app.config file to your add-in and write the following code in it. <configuration>...
Performance issues in add-ins
Hi Most of the VSTO developers suffer with ‘first time load performance’ problem. Beyond the “normal” performance tuning that one can do...
What is Marshalling?
Marshaling is the act of taking data from the environment you are in and exporting it to another environment. In the context of .NET, marhsaling refers to movin...