For Our Developer Friends.....

Compiled by Asli Bilgin and, by her own admission, is not a complete list, but rather a great starting point for VSTO Resources. Enjoy!

VSTO Resources

bits & bytes

· Get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

· Visit the Visual Studio Tools for Office Forum

· Visit the VSTO Developer Center

· Get the OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0

· Try the O2 OBA Challenge

· Visit OBA Central

webcasts

· MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Ken Getz (Level 200)

· MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Robert Green (Level 200)

· MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Tim Huckaby (Level 200)

· MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Office Straight from the Experts: Paul Ballard (Level 200)

Blogs

· The nicest man at MSFT (and he plays a mean guitar too): Mike Hernandez Blog

· Paul Stubbs – Senior Program Manager

· VSTO2 blog

· Best of VSTO blogs

· Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager – he can demo a fetching VSTO

· Chris Castillo's WebLog

· John Durant

· Tim Huckaby

· Ken Getz blog

· Kathleen McGrath

· Paul Stubbs

· Paul Ballard

Tech talks

· VSTO and security – Eric Lippert, VSTO team, senior software dev engineer

· Scope of VSTO Martin Sawicki, program manager VSTO

· Why a VSTO Runtime? Thomas “TQ” Quinn – Principal Architect & Christin Boyd – Customer Program Manager (she KNOWS things, just ask her)

demos

· Video Demo: VSTO and VBA Interop

· How Do I Videos

· VSTO demo Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist – Windows Live

· Extend VBA with .NET Eric Schnepp, Principal Program Manager in the VSTO team

labs

· MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 1 - Data Binding with Word Content Controls ?

· MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 2 - Create an Outlook Add-in with a Form Region

· MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 3 - Build an Excel Add-in with Ribbon and Custom Task Pane Integration

· MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Part 4 - Create a SharePoint Workflow

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Robert is great, no doubt about it, and I am pleased to say that while he was here at Microsoft he linked to more than one of my posts, as has Mary Jo Foley and others. I don't want to be Robert Scoble. I try and distill from the vast volume of announcements, developments and happenings in the technology world items that are of interest to the community I serve. That community is centered in the NY/NJ/PA area and much of what I post is of local interest; code camps, user group meetings, tech days etc... Given that I am a single father of a 5 year old, with a job that's more than 40 hours a week and lots of travel, I do what I can. I never expect to please all the people all the time. :-)

• Anonymous
  August 07, 2007
  You win 2007's Parrot-of-the-Year Award.   Republishing other Softie blog entries - how do you find the time? No offense, buy you should take a page from Robert Scoble.  Who, arguably, is the world's coolest blogger: http://scobleizer.com/2007/08/. Oh, and for the record, he used to work at MS before he blew that popsicle stand.