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3 Days to TechEd 2006

Start packing. There are only 3 days left until the start of TechEd 2006. I will be presenting...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2006

VSTO beats XBOX 360 to the punch

So, what does VSTO have to do with the XBOX 360? Well VSTO is created by the Trinity team, which is...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 05/03/2006

MDX: XBOX 360 Controller Windows Forms Application

Now that the XBOX 360 controller works on windows I thought it would be fun to hook it up to a...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/13/2006

VBA to Visual Studio Tools for Applications Migration

"How do I migrate my code from VBA to VSTA?", is a common question that is asked by many people. The...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2005

VSTA: What is an Add-in?

This is an excellent question posed by TQ, one of our architects, on his blog. The definition of an...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2005

The History of Application Customization

VSTA is all about application customization with the .Net framework, but the history of application...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2005

Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications

Today at PDC05 they announced a new product that I have been working on for the last 2 years. So it...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2005

How To: Dynamic CSS Action Panes in Office

In my last post How to Create HTML Action Panes for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005 I showed a simple...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2005

How to Create HTML Action Panes for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005

VSTO 2005 enables developers to create Windows form Action Panes in Word and Excel with only 1 line...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2005

Hands-on Labs: Learn how to use VSTO 2005

The VSTO 2005 Hands-on Labs are now available. The Word labs walk you through the task of building a...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2005

Announcing VSTO 2005 for Outlook 2003

Today during Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech he announced VSTO for Outlook. Now in addition to...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2005

Live from TechEd 2005

Today is the start of TechEd 2005 in Orlando. Today’s events consist mainly of pre-events and...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 06/05/2005

HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Creating SmartTags for Word and Excel using VSTO 2005 has become incredibly simple. I will show you...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2005

Attaching custom properties to your VSTO 2005 SmartTag

VSTO 2005 makes attaching custom properties to a Smart Tag easy. These properties can be used by the...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 03/11/2005

Turn off the Language Bar

One annoying feature of XP is the Language Bar. This is the little toolbar that opens at the bottom...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2005

VSTO 2005 makes Smart Tags smarter (and easier)

Smart Tags are VSTO’s newest feature. They have been added to the product since Beta 1 has...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/08/2005

Office DevCon Day 3: VSTO 2005 is the star of the BillG Keynote

So it’s the last day of the Office Developers conference and the best was definitely saved for...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/08/2005

Office DevCon Day 2: Ask the Experts

The first day of the conference was great! There has been so much information about Office...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2005

Office Developers ARE the key to Office's success

This article Microsoft Hosts First Office Systems Developers Conference correctly points outs that...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2005

Office Developers Conference Starts Today

The Microsoft Office System 2003 Developers conference starts today here on the Microsoft campus. I...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2005

How to create Excel UDFs in VSTO managed code

One question that I frequently get is how to call managed code from VBA. In general it is not...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 12/31/2004

XMLNode and XMLNodes View Control Video Demo

Last month I did a webcast on view control programming in Office 2003 with VSTO 2005. You can watch...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2004

Bookmark View Controls Video Demo

Last month I did a webcast on view control programming in Office 2003 with VSTO 2005. You can watch...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2004

1 Year Microsoft Anniversary

Well it's hard to believe that its been one year already. The time has gone by so quickly. I have...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2004

View Control Programming in Word and Excel 2003 - Webcast

The VSTO team will be doing a bunch of webcasts over the next month. I will be giving one of them....

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 07/23/2004

Turning 64

After coming back from TechEd 2004 I was really excited by all of the new technologies that I saw. I...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2004

TechEd 2004 Monday Day 2

So Today was the first real day of TechEd. SteveB gave the keynote address. The keynote was so full...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 05/25/2004

TechEd 2004 Sunday Day 1

I got up early to head out to the SeaTac airport to catch the 8:00am flight to San Diego. All of the...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2004

Low Fat Software

There was an article about manditory software labeling. Do you think this is a good thing? Should...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 04/13/2004

MVP Friends

Last week as you all know was the MVP summit here in Redmond. We had a meet and greet on Monday here...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 04/11/2004

Do you have iPod Envy?

My wife has wanted to get an MP3 player for a while and I have been looking for the right one. I...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 03/09/2004

Office 12 is Coming

It looks like MVP's will get the first look at some details of the next version of...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 03/09/2004

Microsoft Research - TechFest

I attended day 1 of MSR TechFest yesterday here on campus. This was my first one. I was very...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 03/04/2004

The Grass is not always greener...

Munich is struggling with their Linux migration from Windows. The article talks about the...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004

The Brady Bunch

As a Mainer in exile let me say....Go Pats!

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2004

MyDoom out of Sync

MyDoom (aka W32.Novarg.A) was scheduled to attack SCO (may be still down) today starting at this...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2004

Bye, Bye Data. A Dead Hard Drive Story.

Backup is not something as a home user that you think about everyday. I sure didn’t, until I...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 01/27/2004

I'm not sleeping, I'm working

A new study shows that sleeping is the best way to solve a problem . Working on bringing together...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2004

Convert VBA to VB .Net and C#

Here is an excellent article on Converting Code from VBA to Visual Basic .Net . The article talks...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2004

Hamburgers Hacked

No one is immune to hackers as this story points out. Even your local fast food drive through is...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 01/12/2004

New Year, New Blog, New Site

Welcome to the New Year and welcome to my new blog. I am a Program Manager for Microsoft on the...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2004

I have been heads down into the PDC Longhorn bits. I am very excited by everything so far. I think...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2003

PDC Live from Redmond

So this morning I watched the PDC live from my desk in Redmond. This was great to be able to see all...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2003

Office System 2003 Launched

Today is the launch of the next version of Office. I am very exited about this version as a...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 10/21/2003

Spec Writing 101

One of the primary jobs of a Program Manager is to create functional specifications. A functional...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 10/16/2003

Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2003 RTM

Visual Studio Tools for Office RTM'd today! This is the first product launched by the Trinity team...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2003

Usability

It is the job of a Program Manager to define features of a product. There are many aspects to this...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 08/11/2003

First Week at Microsoft

I made it through my first week at Microsoft, still no rain. The first week as gone by so quickly,...

Author: Paul Stubbs [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2003

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