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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
Longhorn Links
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