Misha Shneerson
VSTO internals and the little things about CLR, COM, Visual Studio and more ...
VSTO performance tips
If you are writing a VSTO customization - make sure you aware of this performance tip courtesy of...
Date: 06/03/2010
Oh, that mysteriously broken VisibleSlicerItemsList
Excel 2010 has a new feature called Slicers and a bunch of new methods and objects associated with...
Date: 06/01/2010
COM Shim Wizards for VS 2010
About a month ago I wrote a post on compiling the COM shim for 64-bit where I was hoping to have a...
Date: 03/19/2010
Design of VSTO 2010 runtime
When migrating VSTO solutions targeting .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 people are noticing some design...
Date: 03/10/2010
Taking COM Shim Wizards to 64-bit
It’s been quite a while since the last update to COM Shim Wizards has taken place. Among the things...
Date: 02/24/2010
NoPIA blog posts
The plan of record for this post is to collect refererences to NoPIA related posts by other folks...
Date: 01/29/2010
VS 2010 compiler error: Interop type XXX cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead.
Some users have reported that when using Visual Studio 2010 and referencing an Interop Assembly with...
Date: 12/07/2009
Type Equivalence and Type Safety
What one should do on a plane back from the PDC? Of course! Write a new blog post! So, since I still...
Date: 11/03/2008
Face made for emails
Today I got a word that the video recordings I’ve made with Amanda Silver on the topics of Type...
Date: 10/29/2008
Better eventing support in CLR 4.0 using NOPIA support
Events implementation in the Interop Assemblies does have its shortcomings. I enumerated the issues...
Date: 10/28/2008
Type Embedding support in C#
In my PDC session I did talk a lot about Type Embedding support in the compilers and that we call it...
Date: 10/28/2008
Advances in .NET Type system: Type Equivalence Demo
I just finished my PDC session at Los Angeles where we introduced Type Embedding support in the...
Date: 10/28/2008
PDC Talk – Under the hood: Advances in .NET Type System
Advances in .NET Type System – sound like this is a PDC session one must come to. Here is the talks...
Date: 10/06/2008
Targeting multiple versions of Office without PIAs
Having to rely on the correct version of PIAs to be deployed for implementing Office add-ins has...
Date: 06/04/2008
Deploying your VSTO 2008 Add-In to All Users (Part III)
UPDATE March 11, 2010: Office 2010 does support deploying managed add-ins to HKLM which makes the...
Date: 04/24/2008
Preserving transparency when rendering Office icons
Today I have a guest writer on my blog - Eric Faller. Eric shows the correct way to render Office...
Date: 10/10/2007
Deploying your VSTO Add-In to All Users (Part II)
UPDATE March 11, 2010: Office 2010 does support deploying managed add-ins to HKLM which makes the...
Date: 09/05/2007
Deploying your VSTO Add-In to All Users (Part I)
UPDATE March 11, 2010: Office 2010 does support deploying managed add-ins to HKLM which makes the...
Date: 09/04/2007
VSTO 2005 SE runtime update is available
I have promised on several occasions that I will make a post on my blog as soon as an update to VSTO...
Date: 08/30/2007
Update for VSTO 2005 SE released
We have recently released an update for VSTO 2005 SE design time support on Vista. The KB article is...
Date: 07/24/2007
VSTO 2005 SE deployment paper is published
The original deployment paper targeted deployment aspects of customizations built using VSTO 2005...
Date: 03/08/2007
Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.
Omar had a problem: he was using VS 2005 SP1 on Vista to build his Windows Installer setup package...
Date: 03/02/2007
Outlook 2007 samples with VSTO 2005 SE
Randy Byrne from Outlook has modified Outlook 2007 sample to use VSTO 2005 SE. RibbonX sample and...
Date: 02/01/2007
VSTO 2005 Second Edition - hot off the press
VSTO 2005 Second Edition Beta (aka VSTO2005SE) - this is a new free product that complements VSTO...
Date: 09/14/2006
Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely
This article by John Howard is priceless. Windows XP SP2 configures the firewall settings so that...
Date: 08/03/2006
COM shim wizard for Visual Studio 2005
Finally! It took an eternity to get this thing published, but now you can go to MSDN and download...
Date: 06/09/2006
Documents can customize ribbons as well
Andrew Whitechapel was blogging about IRibbonExtensibility and how it can be used in AddIns to...
Date: 06/01/2006
Must read for everyone trying to deploy VSTO solutions
I am breaking the silence to get the word out (to those loyal souls that still aggregate my blog)...
Date: 01/06/2006
Spaces in SmartTag.Terms collection
When you add non-terms into the SmartTag.Terms collection do you expect those terms to be...
Date: 10/31/2005
Getting help on VSTO topics
This post is prompted by a comment left yesterday on my blog. The comment was quite big in size. It...
Date: 10/06/2005
Back from PDC
I am back from PDC and I can finally post to my blog! I was not able to do it from LA because 2...
Date: 09/18/2005
VSTO PDC sessions
PDC is just in a week and I will be there. I will present during the preconference with Eric Carter...
Date: 09/07/2005
VSTO security - I often do not get it
Fabulous world of VSTO security still puzzles me after living in it for the past 3 years. Isn't it...
Date: 08/26/2005
I've got a nice piece of furniture in my office
Eric Lippert could not pass on the opporunity to mess with the guts of C# v3. Which is good for...
Date: 08/23/2005
Back from vacation. ActionsPane, Part 0.
I took some time off from work for a family vacation. We spent our relaxation week on Vancouver...
Date: 08/10/2005
NewsGator and VSTO Outlook support
Until recently people had "tough" choice to make - in your Outlook either run NewsGator or Outlook...
Date: 07/25/2005
Menus for VSTO Smart Tags are dynamic
One quick tip today. Since VSTO Beta2 we have added SmartTags support for document level...
Date: 07/21/2005
Starting up
When writing VSTO projects the developers are asked to write their startup code in an innocuous...
Date: 07/20/2005
Another VSTO blogger
That would be me - Misha Shneerson. I am a developer in VSTO team. My career has been evolving...
Date: 07/14/2005