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August 2006 - Posts

• Rolling your own scripting engine vs integrating Microsoft VSTA

  Here are some reasons why you should consider integrating VSTA rather than writing your own scripting solution: In VSTA, version 1, application customization is focused on Add-in assemblies (not scripts) because Microsoft required security, process isolation Read More...

  Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:46 PM by Gary | 0 Comments

• Top 11 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps

  This MSDN article Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps helps ISVs get the most bang out of their development efforts in supporting Windows Vista; walking you through "10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows VISTA Apps". But I think that Read More...

  Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:42 PM by Gary | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Design, Extensibility

• Line of Business Interoperability (LOBi) for Office SharePoint Server 2007

  During his presentation at TechEd, Chris Caposella announced Microsoft’s Office Business Application Strategy. As part of the overall strategy, Chris announced LOBi for Office SharePoint Server 2007. LOBi will deliver specific functionality for Read More...

  Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:26 PM by Gary | 0 Comments

• Application Compatibility with Windows Vista

  To help ISVs get ready for Windows Vista, Microsoft has created the Innovate on Windows Vista portal which will determine application compatibility status with Windows Vista and step you through the Windows Vista application testing process such that Read More...

  Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:14 PM by Gary | 0 Comments

• Web Seminar (direct link!): Overview of Visual Studio Tools for Application (VSTA)

  Microsoft's Partner Program has put together an excellent video web seminar. This is an overview of the features and benefits of VSTA. Suresh Sreedharan clearly explains VSTA in a way that is easy to understand. Here's a direct link to Microsoft's Read More...

  Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:18 AM by Gary | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Web Seminar, ISV Touchdown

• Warning: 'AppAddIn' is not CLS-compliant because it derives from 'Application', which is not CLS-compliant.

  Here is some helpful information about CLS-compliancy The Common Language Specification (CLS) Because .NET languages have the infrastructure to interact with each other seamlessly, yet each language many choose to implement its own unique features, Microsoft Read More...

  Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 4:38 PM by Gary | 1 Comments

  Filed under: Warning, Common Language Specification, CLS-Compliant

• VSTA's Run-Time Assemblies

  VSTA's run-time assemblies implement 2-way, version-resilient, secure, and robust communication between your host application object and customization macros (addins). At runtime, addins communicate through a proxy layer with the host application (and Read More...

  Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 12:17 PM by Gary | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Addin.Contract, MAF, Contract, AddInManager, COM Interop, Adapter, runtime bits, InteropAdapter