Microsoft VSTA Blog

Creating a Host Item Template

2008-06-05T22:55:39Z

The VSTA SDK provides samples and help topics that show you how to dynamically add host items to VSTA add-in projects. However, If you've read the topic "How to: Add and Remove Host Items in an Add-in Project", you might have been a bit confused by the following code snippet: Where did the value of this last parameter come from? The documentation does not make this very clear, so I will quickly explain. This parameter refers to the location of a host item template. The host...(read more)

Learn about VSTA customer success stories and innovations in VSTA 2.0, tune into our webcast on Sep 27, 2007 at 9 AM PST

2007-08-27T20:37:00Z

Come join us for a webcast on September 27, 2007 at 9:00 AM PST to learn about customer success stories who are using VSTA and the innovations we have made in VSTA 2.0. Naveen Yajaman, Program Manager on the VSTA team will be presenting. For more event details and registration: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032351235&Culture=en-US In this session we will discuss customer success stories using VSTA v1.0. We will also have demos of the new features in VSTA v2.0 and...(read more)

Learn about VSTA customer success stories and innovations in VSTA 2.0, tune into our webcast on Sep 27, 2007 at 9 AM PST

2007-08-27T20:37:00Z

How to Integrate the .NET Framework SDK Documentation with VSTA

2007-05-18T02:36:59Z

The InfoPath team shows you how to integrate the .Net Framework help into the VSTA IDE for InfoPath. Make sure you follow the note about starting InfoPath as an administrator if you are using Windows Vista with UAC turned on (which you should be doing and is the default behavior) Read more here on the InfoPath team blog . How to Integrate the .NET Framework SDK Documentation with VSTA This blog post greatly expands upon the MSDN online help. http://msdn2.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa944989(VS.80).aspx...(read more)

How to Integrate the .NET Framework SDK Documentation with VSTA

2007-05-18T02:36:59Z

VSTA Video: VSTA at a glance

2007-04-27T16:23:08Z

Harry Miller who is a documentation writer on the VSTO and VSTA team has created a short video that looks at VSTA. This video does an excellent job at explaining at a high level (manager view) what is VSTA, what are some of the features and how it is integrated. Watch video . ShapeApp sample application. ShapeApp macro recording. ShapeApp macro generated code I also want to thank Kathleen for working with Harry to post this on her blog....(read more)

VSTA Video: VSTA at a glance

2007-04-27T16:23:08Z

VSTA powers Solgenia customizations

2007-04-19T21:58:07Z

Solgenia is one the of first ISV customers to integrate Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) into their GeoMap software suite. Russ Fustino will be doing a demo of Solgenia's VSTA integration at Teched 2007 in Orlando this June. Read more about VSTA on Solgenia's site http://www.solgenia.com/include/read.asp?lang=&IdArt=5342&IdCat=426...(read more)

VSTA Video: VSTA Overview

2007-03-28T16:26:38Z

By now you have seen Visual Studio Tools for Applications in Office InfoPath 2007 and have been wondering about how to integrate VSTA into your applications. Watch Eric and Naveen take you through the features and design goals of VSTA. Watch Now...(read more)

VSTA Video: VSTA Overview

2007-03-28T16:26:38Z

VSTA 2005 SDK Launch Announcement

2007-03-27T16:46:15Z

I am pleased to announce the release of the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications Software Development Kit (SDK) . VSTA allows Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and enterprises to add application customization to their applications. Microsoft InfoPath 2007 has integrated VSTA. You can see VSTA in action by designing an InfoPath form and pressing Alt-Shift-F12 to launch the VSTA development environment. Think of VSTA as the managed alternative to VBA. VSTA and VBA can also run side by side within...(read more)

VSTA RTM's with the 2007 Office System

2006-11-10T15:07:00Z

I am excited to announce that Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) was released as an integrated component of the 2007 Office system earlier this week and is available to both Office developers and ISVs! As Microsoft's future direction in application extensibility, VSTA provides a powerful customization toolset for ISVs, their customers, and their partners. Leveraging Visual Studio and .NET to provide managed extensibility, VSTA enables innovative customization scenarios while offering new...(read more)

VSTA RTM's with the 2007 Office System

2006-11-10T15:07:00Z

VBA and VSTA side by side

2006-07-31T18:24:00Z

One of the cool features of VSTA is that it can exist side by side with VBA in the host application. This allows hosts to slowly migrate their users to managed code over time. Summit has created a sample walkthrough showing you how to integrate VBA and VSTA into the SDK sample application, ShapeApp. Integrating VSTA with an Unmanaged VBA-Enabled Application Paul Stubbs Program Manager...(read more)

Unloading an Add-In

2006-07-13T17:55:00Z

It has been a while since I’ve blogged, and I still haven’t delivered on my promise that I would explain how to control the AppDomain into which an add-in will be loaded. I’m not going to deliver on that promise today, either; mostly because I think that before I can dig into some of the more advanced performance and partial-trust scenarios supported by the AddInManager, we need to talk about how to shut down add-ins that are already running. Once the add-in is loaded, all that needs to be done is...(read more)