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Announcement: 4

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcement

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    New release of VSTO run-time fixes issues
    Cindy Meister MVP Friday, April 18, 2014 5:47 PM

    For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx

    This release fixes:

    1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
    devices experienced a 15-20 second lag when closing Office applications

    2. for developers using SHA256 code-signing certificates, the installation
    Trust Prompt would erroneously display “Unknown Publisher” even when the
    publisher was fully trusted.

  • Link
    Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
    Cindy Meister MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:40 PM

    Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO.  Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.

    To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".

  • Link
    Office Tools for Visual Studio 2015
    Cindy Meister MVP Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:22 PM

    The newest version of Visual Studio - 2015 - is now available.

    The Community edition of Visual Studio also supports "Office Tools", including VSTO and "Apps for Office" templates. Both can be downloaded at
    https://www.visualstudio.com/features/office-tools-vs

    What was new in VS 2013 for Office:

    For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates.  The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.

    Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint.  Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services.  Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.

    Tip: 
    Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates.  However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support.  So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".

    We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!

    ~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office


  • Link
    Documentation for Office 2013 Ribbon controls now available
    Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:49 AM

    I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.

    Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727

    From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.

    Best Regards,
    Nathan O.
    Microsoft Online Community Support

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    Word and Excel 2010 slow to quit upon opening a WPF window in add-in

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    I am experiencing strange behavior in my VSTO add-ins. I have add-ins for Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook built in Visual Studio 2010 as Office 2007 add-ins. They all put a button in ...
    Answered | 11 Replies | 8550 Views | Created by wannabe.wpf.dev - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:50 AM | Last reply by Andreas H - Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:13 AM
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    VS 2017 is not able to create Excel 2013 and 2016 VSTO workbook project, getting the Error: The project cannot be created.

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    Hi Team, I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017 Version 15.9.17 Microsoft .NET ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 363 Views | Created by Srihari Javvaji - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:44 PM
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    How to debug an Outlook VSTO add-in ?

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    Hi, I work on a windows application that communicates with an Outlook add-in through IPC. When executing both of them on Visual Studio Code, everything works just ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 354 Views | Created by Tristan Blaudez - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:31 AM
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    Inserting html file inside content control range adds extra space at end in content control

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    Hi, I have a use case where i am getting the content control text change from a word document. I am sending the content control text as html(to keep the formatting). In content ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 341 Views | Created by Sumit Pannu - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 5:44 AM | Last reply by Sumit Pannu - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:12 AM
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    Extract all types of embedded and attachment files from word document

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    Hi, i'm using VSTO interop v15 to convert my office documents to PDF.  I have been stuck up while converting word document which contains embedded and ...
    Answered | 21 Replies | 6449 Views | Created by chandu537 - Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:09 PM | Last reply by Prabss - Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:57 PM
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    How to set document Permission (RMS)

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    File > Info > Protect Document >restrict Access. How I can do that from code? In Outlook it is quit simple you can set ...
    Proposed | 5 Replies | 4727 Views | Created by Mr Konrad Sikorski - Monday, August 31, 2015 2:31 PM | Last reply by Jitendra G Chauhan - Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:13 AM
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    Registering to OnClick event of ActiveX control

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     Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.Forms. Is there any equivalent for ActiveXControls?
    Answered | 4 Replies | 3549 Views | Created by StefanM83 - Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:51 PM | Last reply by Cindy Meister MVP - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:07 PM
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    Team Foundation Server (TFS) Version 16.131.28226.3 Transaction Log Growth due to TBL_Content Delete

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    Hi, We are experiencing transaction log growth against our TFS_DefaultCollection database, have looked to see the cause and notice there a delete happening ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 326 Views | Created by iporritt - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:12 PM
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    items_ItemAdd event runs multiple times when used on shared mailbox - Outlook C#

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    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 298 Views | Created by DhirenK - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:00 AM
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    I want to set expiry of word document using c# code. Please help me!

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    Hi.. I want to set expiry of existing word document using c# code so that it will become unusable after certain days. Additionally i also want to restrict word editing and ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 393 Views | Created by Jitendra G Chauhan - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:09 AM | Last reply by Xingyu Zhao - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:05 AM
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    Error installing .vsto AddIn for Outlook on Windows 10

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    System.Net.WebException: Could not find file 'C:\Users\jkumin\AppData\Local\Temp\7zO07012381\DPOAddIn.vsto'. ---> System.Net.WebException: Could not find file ...
    Proposed | 1 Replies | 355 Views | Created by Josh_25 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 3:58 PM | Last reply by Anna Xiu-MSFT - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 2:22 AM
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    How do I create a web application user interface?

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    I have a desktop application which I want to convert into a web application. I am not sure how to go about it. Right now only one user is using it from her desktop. I want to make this a web ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 338 Views | Created by winkimjr2 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 3:05 PM
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    MS Powerpoint(.PPTX) Document Custom properties not visible if file downloaded from google drive

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    Option->Trust settings and off the protected view. Enable All macros. but when I tried to regenerate the case then also it's not showing the Custom properties of the ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 258 Views | Created by Satish bhuktar - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 2:33 PM
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    Simulate a click on "Skype Meeting" in Outlook

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    Hello, I'm trying write an Outlook plugin that will simulate a click on "Skype Meeting" button in Outlook 2016  I was trying to ...
    Proposed | 4 Replies | 1248 Views | Created by MariusNY - Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:39 AM | Last reply by Nikhil Reddy B - Saturday, November 9, 2019 11:23 AM
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    MailItem property

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    Hi, Does MailItem have a unique property that remains the same even if MailItem gets moved to another store? EntryID seems to be unique for each ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 282 Views | Created by net_tech - Friday, November 8, 2019 2:06 AM | Last reply by Eugene Astafiev - Friday, November 8, 2019 8:24 AM
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    Project cannot be created because the "Excel Visual Studio Design-Time Adaptor Add-in" is not working correctly

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    Using VS 2013 Update 4 and Excel 2010 on Windows 7. Had a project working yesterday, doesn't work today... Getting the Project cannot be created because the "Excel Visual ...
    Answered | 5 Replies | 2068 Views | Created by rvghst - Tuesday, February 3, 2015 1:23 PM | Last reply by sebschavoir - Thursday, November 7, 2019 11:32 AM
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    Does there exist interop assemblies for office 365 pro plus?

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    Hello everyone! I'm looking for interop assemblies for office 365 pro plus.Cause I used Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel (15.0.4795.1000) to read formula which contains external data, and I found ...
    Unanswered | 2 Replies | 358 Views | Created by dark1916 - Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:58 AM | Last reply by dark1916 - Thursday, November 7, 2019 6:07 AM
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    Excel Idmso not working in 64 bit

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    Hi Team, I have been working on an excel addin that uses an idmso for executing a functionality.I have found that the particular idmso ("ReviewNewComment") is working fine ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 318 Views | Created by SibasishAich - Monday, November 4, 2019 12:53 PM | Last reply by Eugene Astafiev - Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:13 AM
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    .dll is not a valid office add-in

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    Trying to add an Outlook Add-in to Outlook 2016 / 16.0.4849.1000 32bit on Windows 10 / 1903 under a test user generates an error shown below. The Add-in was built on the same ...
    Proposed | 8 Replies | 454 Views | Created by net_tech - Saturday, November 2, 2019 6:13 PM | Last reply by Perry_Pan - Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:59 AM
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    How to programmatically extract the text of the currently viewed page of an Office.Interop.Word.Document object

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    The primary purpose of my application is to allow viewing of MS Word documents. For project-related reasons, I need to be aware of the text the user is currently looking at ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 6582 Views | Created by ahmedmhamid - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:48 PM | Last reply by Kalariya47 - Friday, November 1, 2019 1:48 PM
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Announcement: 4

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcement

  • Link
    New release of VSTO run-time fixes issues
    Cindy Meister MVP Friday, April 18, 2014 5:47 PM

    For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx

    This release fixes:

    1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
    devices experienced a 15-20 second lag when closing Office applications

    2. for developers using SHA256 code-signing certificates, the installation
    Trust Prompt would erroneously display “Unknown Publisher” even when the
    publisher was fully trusted.

  • Link
    Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
    Cindy Meister MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:40 PM

    Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO.  Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.

    To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".

  • Link
    Office Tools for Visual Studio 2015
    Cindy Meister MVP Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:22 PM

    The newest version of Visual Studio - 2015 - is now available.

    The Community edition of Visual Studio also supports "Office Tools", including VSTO and "Apps for Office" templates. Both can be downloaded at
    https://www.visualstudio.com/features/office-tools-vs

    What was new in VS 2013 for Office:

    For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates.  The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.

    Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint.  Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services.  Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.

    Tip: 
    Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates.  However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support.  So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".

    We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!

    ~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office


  • Link
    Documentation for Office 2013 Ribbon controls now available
    Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:49 AM

    I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.

    Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727

    From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.

    Best Regards,
    Nathan O.
    Microsoft Online Community Support

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