Top "Vsto" questions

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools for creating Office automation solutions (add-in or document customization), using .NET and the Visual Studio IDE.

Outlook MailItem: How to distinguish whether mail is incoming or outgoing?

I am writing VSTO Outlook addin in C#, and I need to distinguish, whether given MailItem is incoming or outgoing (…

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Beginning VSTO Development

I'm quite confused with what are the necessary tools for VSTO develpment. Specifically I want to manipulate Excel 2003/2007 documents programmatically. …

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How to access Application property in VSTO Outlook add-in outside of ThisAddIn class?

ThisAddIn class created with new Outlook VSTO C# project has a Application property that you can use to among other …

c# .net vsto outlook-addin
How to redistribute Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime with InstallShield correctly?

Using: VS 2012, InstallShield 2012 Spring Express For my Excel Add-In I need to redistribute to prerequisites: - Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Full …

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Outlook Addin Error: Not loaded. A runtime error occurred during loading of COM add-in

I have created an VSTO Outlook addin. The configuration is as follows: Visual Studio 2008 Office 2007 Outlook add in (3.5 Framework) MSI …

c# vsto outlook-addin outlook-2010
VBA VS. VSTO what is the difference, should I upgrade?

I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. …

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Ambiguity in Word Interop code

I recently posted a question about reading Word files here. The app runs fine however I get this Warning message; …

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Excel won't open/launch VSTO AddIn when running in debug mode of Visual Studio 2010

I had previously installed the VS11 beta, and had some issues with my Visual Studio 2010 instance, which you can see …

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Reason not to use LINQ

Are there any good Reasons not to use LINQ in my projcts? We use .Net 3.5 and VSTO 3.0.

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Get the IDs of all the controls of Office 2010 ribbon and interact with ribbon shortcut from custom Add-ins

I want to get all the controls list in the powerpoint 2010 ribbon like the one in the powerpoint option -&…

.net vsto powerpoint add-in ribbonx