Some VSTO Resources
Asli Bilgin has put together a great list some VSTO resources (by no means comprehensive so please comment with any other resource not here that you like):
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
· Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager – he can demo a fetching VSTO
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
· VSTO demo Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist – Windows Live
· Extend VBA with .NET Eric Schnepp, Principal Program Manager in the VSTO team
labs