Developing for Office with Visual Studio is a deeply integrated experience. Project templates abound for almost every Office client application making it easy to quickly build Add-ins, Outlook Form Regions, extend the Ribbon and Backstage View and create Context Menus. All 2007 supported scenarios persist forward in Office 2010 as well. This unit provides an overview on what is available in Visual Studio 2010 for customizing Office.
Hands-On Labs
Office 2010 UI Customization Lab
Now with both C# and VB code samples! In this lab, you will explore the different ways in which the Office 2010 UI can be customized to provide a platform for building rich office applications. You will make use of Visual Studio 2010.
Videos
Office and Visual Studio 2010
This video provides an overview on what is supported in Visual Studio 2010 for Office developers and the various deployment scenarios available for solutions. It demonstrates an Excel add-in with a context sensitive ribbon, customized context menu and extensibility of the Backstage View.
Office UI Customizations
This video is a deeper dive into how to develop UI customizations using the new Ribbon Designer, extending the Backstage View and creating custom Context Menus.
Custom Task Panes
Building custom task panes, one of the most widely used ways to enhance end user productivity in Office, is discussed in this video. With custom task panes, developers can bring to the fingertips of the end user information and data from virtually any source, whether via WCF, Web services, BCS or SharePoint Lists.
Outlook Form Regions
This video provides an overview on how to create Form Regions from within Outlook or by using Visual Studio.