An overview of Office Extensibility using VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office).
Plus a simple Research Service using VB 2008 & LINQ.
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Discussion
A presentation I gave 26 July 2007 at the OmahaMTG meeting providing an overview of
Office Extensibility using VSTO. In addition to VSTO alternatives such as Macros,
the Office Research Pane, and VB6 were discussed.
The discussion was primarily Outlook however the concepts apply equally well to Word, Excel & other Office applications.
The presentation discussed my Xml Export Sample and gave a LINQ teaser demonstrating how to create a Research Service.
The attached zip file includes the Office 2003/2007 Research Service written in Visual Basic 2008 Beta 2 leveraging LINQ.
The sample uses the AdventureWorksLT sample SQL Server 2005 database which is not included.
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