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    - building outlook toolbar in contacts I can use the below code to create a toolbar in outlook: try { // See if it already exists this .toolbarButton = (Microsoft.Office.Core. CommandBarButton )commandBars[ "Standard" ].Controls[ "SE Dial Contact" ]; if (applicationObject.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder.FolderPath.EndsWith( "Inbox" )) { this .toolbarButton.Visible = false ; } } catch ( Exception ) { // Create it this .toolbarButton = (Microsoft.Office.Core. CommandBarButton )commandBars[ "Standard" ].Controls.Add(1, System.Reflection. Missing .Value, System.Reflection. Missing .Value, System.Reflection. Missing .Value, System.Reflection. Missing .Value); if (applicationObject.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder.FolderPath.EndsWith( "Inbox" )) { this .toolbarButton.Visible = false ; } this .toolbarButton.Caption = "SE Dial Contact" ; this .toolbarButton.Style = Microsoft.Office.Core. MsoButtonStyle .msoButtonCaption; } but I want this toolbar to be created in each contact in outlook (when user double clicks a contact).... how is this done Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Before an Appointment item is saved, how can I get the occurrences specified by the recurrence pattern? I am trying to create code behind a custom form in Outlook. It is a customization for the AppointmentItem form. On the custom tab we have a C# User Control. Within the control, I have a need to get all of the occurrences of the appointment specified by the recurrence pattern, if one exists. So, based on some user action on the control, I am trying to get a list of dates that the appointment will fall on. The problem is, when I call GetOccurrence on the recurrence pattern of the item, I get an exception "You changed one of the recurrences of this item, and this instance no longer exists. Close any open items and try again." What am I missing here Any help would be appreciated. Example code: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { List<DateTime> lsStarts = new List<DateTime>(); List<DateTime> lsEnds = new List<DateTime>(); Outlook.Application app = new Outlook.Application(); Outlook.Inspector insp = app.ActiveInspector(); Object item = insp.CurrentItem; Outlook.AppointmentItem apptItem = item as Outlook.AppointmentItem; LoadDateLists(apptItem, lsStarts, lsEnds); // continue, i.e. check availability of selected resource for the dates of the appointment //ShowDates(lsStarts, lsEnds); } private void LoadDateLists(Outlook.AppointmentItem item, List<DateTime> lsStarts, List<DateTime> lsEnds) { lsStarts.Clear(); lsEnds.Clear(); if (item != null) { if (item.RecurrenceState == Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlRecurrenceState.olApptNotRecurring) { lsStarts.Add(TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.ToUniversalTime(item.Start)); lsEnds.Add(TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.ToUniversalTime(item.End)); } else if (item.RecurrenceState == Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlRecurrenceState.olApptMaster) { Outlook.RecurrencePattern recurPattern = item.GetRecurrencePattern(); for (DateTime dt = recurPattern.PatternStartDate; dt < recurPattern.PatternEndDate; dt = dt.AddDays(1)) { try { // THE FOLLOWING LINE CAUSES EXCEPTION: // You changed one of the recurrences of this item, and this instance no longer exists. // Close any open items and try again. Outlook.AppointmentItem oItem = recurPattern.GetOccurrence(dt); if (oItem != null) { lsStarts.Add(TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.ToUniversalTime(oItem.Start)); lsEnds.Add(TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.ToUniversalTime(oItem.End)); } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } } } else { // to do: Unhandled condition in LoadDateLists, item.RecurrenceState == " + item.RecurrenceState.ToString() } } } Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Outlook 2007 RTM FormRegion & InfoPath control Thanks for your reply (sorry I didn't see it sooner). The basic form region is made up of the standard to, cc, subject, and message fields and then an InfoPath control at the bottom. The form region is a "replacement" form as opposed to a partial region that exists in another form. Using the simplest repro method, have the add-in cause the InfoPath control to create a new form using a template (we open a File Open dialog to get the template but you can hard-code it for your tests). Once the form region (as its own form since it is a replacement form region) is open, you can tab to all of the controls except the InfoPath control. You can click (with a mouse) into a field in the InfoPath control, but if you press tab, you will leave the control and go to the next Outlook field. I believe you should be able to tab into the InfoPath control and then remain there until you click out of it (in other words, the InfoPath control should process all keys while it has focus). Let me know if you need more information. Pete Loveall Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Conditionally create multiple MS Word documents based on a single, master MS Word doc? I want to conditionally create multiple MS Word documents based on the same master MS Word document. Example: I have a single MS Word document with say 100 sections. I want to create 4 different MS Word documents, which include a different subset of the sections from the master document. I know I can do this today by manually copying and pasting, but this is error prone and time consuming. I am looking for a solution where I can somehow tag the different sections in the master document and then somehow provide a parameter value which indicates which sections (based on their associated tags) should be stripped and which should be kept in the resultant document. I experimented with the MS WORD mail merge feature - but it's insuffience to archieve the above result. Please let me know if the above can be achieved with the vanilla MS WORD product, and if not what commerical Word add-ons do you recommend Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - VSTO 2005 and VS 2005 Pro - how to get all features of both Sorry if the answer is already out there and obvious but I can't find it and need to make a purchasing decision: I'm using VS 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition. I don't need all that this version has to offer. Basically I want VS 2005 Pro with full VSTO capabilities. I understand that VSTO SE will help but doesn't offer full capabilities. I also need the capabilities in VS 2005 Pro that aren't in the VSTO version. From a purchasing standpoint the most cost effective way to go seems to be to buy VS Pro with MSDN Pro subscription to get both. Does this make sense Thanks in advance for your information. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - outlook toolbar in sent messages Hi all, i have created a toolbar that loads a commandbar into outlook when it loads, using Code Snippet Office.CommandBar newToolBar; Office.CommandBars cBars =this.Application.ActiveExplorer().CommandBars; newToolBar = cBars.Add("myBar", Office.MsoBarPosition.msoBarTop, false, true); (with some other stuff), and it loads into the main outlook screen fine.... However, I would like to have these buttons in the toolbar when I open up a message. i.e. open outlook, open a message, press toolbar button. HOw do I install the button/toolbar into that screen thanks michal Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Creating a formatted Microsoft excel file. Hi, How can you create formated excel files through a program. By formatting, i mean individual cell background colors, row widths, column heights.. and stuff. Thanks in advance. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Printing Range of Pages prints in a 20 page document, prints it 20 times It is a 20 page document. object pageRange = "1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19" object PrintRangeOfPages = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word. WdPrintOutRange .wdPrintRangeOfPages; object PrintDocumentContent = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word. WdPrintOutItem .wdPrintDocumentContent; object PrintAllPages = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word. WdPrintOutPages .wdPrintAllPages; Document .PrintOut(ref BooleanTrue, ref MissingValue, ref PrintRangeOfPages, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue, ref PrintDocumentContent, ref pageRange, ref PrintAllPages, ref BooleanFalse, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue, ref BooleanFalse, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue, ref MissingValue); Please advise if I am doing something wrong. shrini Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Disable VSTO toolbar when cell is being edited When you start typing in on a cell, Excel 2003 disables some standard toolbar buttons. How can I achieve the same effect for my VSTO toolbar buttons. I've looked for an event such as ThisWorkbook.CellStartEdit, but there seem be be none that matches what I'm looking for. Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2) Has anyone tried to follow along with the new article on "Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Solutions Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)" The article is here: url:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332051.aspx About half-way through Part 1, the following instructions appear, leaving me perplexed: Preparing the Office Component Check Compile the Office component checker sample for the primary interop assemblies redistributable packages Important: If you are using VSTO 2005 SE in conjunction with VSTO 2005, ensure that you have installed both the .NET Framework 2.0 software development kit (SDK) and the Windows SDK. Here's my question: Which Windows SDK should I install I'm running VSTO 2005 SE with VSTO 2005 on WinXPSP2. I assume that I should install a Windows SDK specific to WinXPSP2, but I can't figure out what file that would be I can find Platform SDKs for Vista and WinServer 2003. Should I be looking for a "Platform SDK" for WinXPSP2 Or should I be looking for a "Windows SDK" as listed in the article Where can I find the SDK -- Bill Coan billcoan@wordsite.com Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - How to store meta-data in Outlook 2007 I am developing an Outlook plug in where I have to store meta-data in Outlook for the customizations user does. How to store meta-data in Outlook without persisting to the user (and) without storing in different file(like xml file) I did research on table object. But, I think it doesn't help me out because it is read only object. Please let me know if u have any ideas I am using VSTO SE/ Outlook2007 /VS 2005/C# Thanks, Rama Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - A strange problem in retrieving a file path and creating a button in Word Hi I don't have a lot of knowlege in COM so the problem that I encountered was very strange to me. I'm trying to create a button in my Word appliction through a Shard Addin project in C#. When I'll press this button a certain logic that I wrote will be executed. I encountered two problems. 1) I can't create the button in my Word application but only in my outlook and I don't know why. I followed exactly the code that's written here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;302901 But the button was not created. I Added the right assemblies for Word and Office and the CheckBox for "Register for COM interop" was checked. I tried to install all of office components again but it still didn't worked Then I tried to check whether the Addin workd at all so I wrote a messageBox in the OnStartupComplete to see if the MessageBox shows-up. The MessageBox - MessageBox.Show("Hi") - only shows up in Power Point and Outlook. Not in Word or Excel. 2) After the button will be clicked I want to retrieve the path of the current Word Document that's running. Since I couldn't do it with Word, I tried to do it with "Power Point" just to see that it works. I created a string variable that holds the path of the current object according to the code that I found here in a similar question. I checked to see if the file path was retrieved by setting one of the MessageBox parameters with the string value of the path: Type CurrentApplicationType = applicationObject . GetType (); object ActiveDocument = CurrentApplicationType . InvokeMember ( "ActivePresentation" , System . Reflection . BindingFlags . GetProperty , null , applicationObject , null ); ActiveFilePath = ( string ) ActiveDocument . GetType (). InvokeMember ( "FullName" , System . Reflection . BindingFlags . GetProperty , null , ActiveDocument , null ); MessageBox . Show ( "ActiveFilePath" , ActiveFilePath ); The result was that the MessageBox doesn't show up at all. It does shoes up when I write a regular MessageBox - MessageBox.Show("Hi"). Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Word automation from a Web Service With current (i.e. pre Word 2007) versions of MSWord, there are problems attempting to use WORD automation on an unattended server. The main ones are: WORD is not thread safe. Trying to start more than one instance can crash you. This results in very limited throughput if you are trying to do higher volume WORD can open "pop-up" error dialogues at any time, effectively hanging the app until some form of intervention occurs. Microsoft strongly recommends that you not implement server based automation. Thats great, except in many cases there is no other way to do what you need to do! So my question is whether Word 2007 solves these problems, and whether that makes use of WORD 2007 in a server based application an viable option I am specifically looking at a "document rendering" web service. We have a document management database with a few terabytes of documents, much of it in MS Word documents. I need to be able to render a WORD document to PDF to enable it to be displayed on our web portal. It sounds like Words 2007 "Save to PDF" is just what I need. So I am visualizing development of a web service which will accept a request to render a document, retrieve it from the database, use VSTO to load the document and automate the "save as PDF" ,and take the resulting PDF document and return it as the web service response. IF this approach doesn't work, I am looking at having to purchase some fairly expensive commercial software products that do the same thing, but use multiple workstations and instances of Word (to get around the threading / stability problems)....a kind of complex and expensive solution... (note my go live date is in 2007, so the time frame for Office 2007 would work for me, if the architecture is viable) Can anyone give me an idea of whether it would be viable to pursue a Word 2007 based solution Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Deployment path setting Hello, I've developed an addin for Word 2007 using VSTO 2005 SE. For the setup file, I'm using the default setup file when I created the project. My question is, how can I set a default installation folder for my addin For example:- When the setup file launched, I want to make the *.msi file to automatically install the addin to a predefined folder. It means that no user interaction required, no need to choose an installation path and no clicking needed. Just a direct installation like the MS Office 2007 PIA msi setup file. Can it be done Hope someone can help me about this. Regards, Westman Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Adding images to home-made context menus Hi, I'm working on a VSTO 2005 SE add-in for Word 2007 that add items to the context menu. My problem is that I didn't manage to add images to my new context menu items. Here's my code to add an item to the context menu (here, the "Text" context menu) : Code Snippet Dim myContextMenuItem As Office.CommandBar Dim btn As Office.CommandBarButton myContextMenuItem = app.CommandBars("Text") btn = myContextMenuItem.FindControl(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton, , Caption) If (btn Is Nothing ) Then btn = myContextMenuItem.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton, , "" , pos, True ) btn.Caption = Caption btn.Tag = Caption btn.Style = Office.MsoButtonStyle.msoButtonCaption btn.Visible = False End If I guess I should use the Picture property. So I added the following line : btn.Picture = GetImage("myImage") Where GetImage is declared like this : Code Snippet Public Function GetImage( ByVal imageName As String ) As stdole.IPictureDisp Dim bitmap As Bitmap bitmap = My .Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(imageName) Return PictureConverter.ImageToPictureDisp(bitmap) End Function And PictureConverter is a friend class : Code Snippet Friend Class PictureConverter Inherits AxHost Private Sub New () MyBase .New( String .Empty) End Sub Public Shared Function ImageToPictureDisp( _ ByVal image As Image) As stdole.IPictureDisp Return CType (GetIPictureDispFromPicture(image), _ stdole.IPictureDisp) End Function Public Shared Function IconToPictureDisp( _ ByVal icon As Icon) As stdole.IPictureDisp Return ImageToPictureDisp(icon.ToBitmap()) End Function Public Shared Function PictureDispToImage( _ ByVal picture As stdole.IPictureDisp) As Image Return GetPictureFromIPicture(picture) End Function End Class Unfortunately, this doesn't work. There's no crash, but there's no picture in my context menu item. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Adding a large amount of contacts I've hit a road block. I am writing a .NET Outlook (2003) plugin to update my users contacts from a database that our clients update. I have managed to get the plugin button up, and clicking on the button gets the contacts and starts adding them. However, the code has added the 249th contact item, I start getting First Chance exceptions. Is there some kind of restriction that stops me from adding more contacts This is a huge issue for new users in the group, becuase we have over 5000 email address that need to be pushed out to the Contacts Folder. Here is my code for adding the contacts. Please tell me if I am doing something wrong or if there is a restriction: foreach ( DataRow dr in dt.Rows) { try { Outlook. ContactItem ci = (Outlook. ContactItem )newcontacts.Items.Add( Outlook. OlItemType .olContactItem); ci.CompanyName = dr[ "CustomerName" ].ToString(); ci.FullName = dr[ "ContactName" ].ToString(); ci.CustomerID = dr[ "CustomerNumber" ].ToString(); if (dr[ "ContactNumber" ].ToString() != "" ) ci.BusinessTelephoneNumber = dr[ "ContactNumber" ].ToString(); ci.Email1Address = dr[ "ContactEmail" ].ToString(); ci.Save(); } catch ( Exception ex) { Console .WriteLine(ex.ToString()); } Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Convert a selection and convert it to rtf Hello all, Is there any way to take a selection from MS Word using VSTO, and convert that selection to rtf Right now here is the code which uses the clipboard: private string ConvertToRTF(Word. XMLNode node) { string strData = "" ; try { // Copy to clipboard (This will erase the clipboard contents that the user entered into here before!!! node.Range.Copy(); strData = Clipboard .GetText( TextDataFormat .Rtf); Clipboard .Clear(); } catch ( Exception ex) { Trace .WriteLineIf(logic.ASI3Reporting.TraceError, "Error converting to rtf: " + ex.ToString(), "Errors" ); string ss = ex.ToString(); } return strData; } The problem with the code is that the clipboard contents are now replaced with my selection thus replacing the value at the top of the clipboard stack so the end user won't have their original copied data. I need to copy this because this is the only way that I can get the selection converted to rtf. Another method would require saving the entire document to disk as rtf but this would only work for the entire document, whereas, I need to convert only a selection. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - ComboBox on an Outlook PropertyPage doesn't seem to get DrawItem events I want to display several ComboBoxes on an Outlook PropertyPage. I want the ComboBoxes to display icons and text. I've tried two approaches to this: Setting the draw mode of a standard ComboBox to DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed and then setting a DrawItem callback. However the callback never gets called. I then tried extending the standard ComboBox class that sets the draw mode in the constructor and overrides OnDrawItem. This method never gets called. I can only conclude that the DrawItem event never gets fired. Is this something to do with the ComboBox being inside a PropertyPage Any suggestions on how this can be resolved Many thanks, Ben Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - ServerDocument.AddCustomization throwing COMException HRESULT: 0x80040407 Hi, I have upgraded a Excel VSTO 2003 solution to VSTO 2005. Now, I am about to deploy this to my end-users. However, I need to automatically migrate the existing Excel workbooks created which refer to the 2003 Solution (via _AssemblyName0 and _AssemblyLocation0 custom properties) to use the new 2005 solution. I realize this involves embedding a Runtime Storage Control activeX component within the Excel document. Therefore, I employed a technique provided by MS as part of a solution called ApplicationManifestEditor. Essentially, it tries to add the Runtime Storgage Control to a document by using the ServerDocument.AddCustomization(...) method. Unfortunately, when I try this methodology I get an COMException as shown below. The parameters I am passing to the AddCustomization method are: documentPath = "C:\MyDirectory\OldExcelWorkbook.xls" assemblyName = "C:\MyVSTO2005Solution\MyAssembly.dll" manifestPath = "" applicationVersion = "1.0.0.0" makePathsRelative = true / false (tried both). Could you please assist me in resolving this issue Thanks, Tim System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040407): Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040407\r\n at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.IAppInfoDocument.SetDocument(String fileName, Byte[] bytes, FileAccess access)\r\n at Microsoft.Office.Tools.OfficeAppInfoDocument.GetOfficeDocument()\r\n at Microsoft.Office.Tools.OfficeAppInfoDocument.EnsureDocument()\r\n at Microsoft.Office.Tools.OfficeAppInfoDocument.WriteItem(String element, String id, Byte[] item)\r\n at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.AppInfo.WriteManifest(IAppInfo appInfo, String manifest)\r\n at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.Customizer.CustomizeDocument()\r\n at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.Customizer.Customize()\r\n at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.ServerDocument.AddCustomization(String documentPath, String assemblyName, String deploymentManifestPath, String applicationVersion, Boolean makePathsRelative)\r\n at ApplicationManifestEditor.ApplicationManifestEditor.AddCustomization(String fileName) in D:\\Data\\Visual Studio Projects\\ApplicationManifestViewer\\CS\\ApplicationManifestEditor\\ApplicationManifestEditor.cs:line 504" string Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Support for multiple columns in Form Region controls Hi, I need to display data in multiple columns (like in a table) in a form region. I tried all Outlook.Olk* controls, none of them are suitable for my requirement. Neither "Grid" control is supported for form regions. 1)Could you please suggest me any other way to show the data in multiple columns 2)How to get the handle to this control in the function BeforeFormRegionShow() so that I can populate the values to this control Thanks. Regards, Rama Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Error when trying to install ClickOnce Application Howdy, I'm trying to install a clickonce application from IIS on my development machine which has .NET 3.0 installed and VS2k5 sp1 installed. When I navigate to the site and click the Install button I get the download dialog and all is well until I select run from the the setup dialog. I then get the error below: The following error occurred attempting to install 'http://luke/ArlTexAjax/AddressBook.application': "Application not found " I have set the MIME types for .application, .manifest and .deploy extensions. As I was working trying to solve this issue I noticed if I clicked on "launch" link on the installation page, the install is accomplished successfully. It seems as though the setup.exe file cannot find the AddressBook.application file which is in the same folder with the setup.exe file. Can anyone give me a clue or two regarding what may be going on here Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Unlocking a project... I appologize if this is not the place to ask this, however, I could not find an Excel Programming specific MSDN forum. **PLEASE DO NOT REFER ME TO THE OFFICE DISCUSSION GROUPS** => I have been there and done that and I'm looking here now for help <= There seems to be some debate on whether or not a person can lock/unlock a VBAProject in Excel. I've been told you can't. I've been told it can be done using SendKeys which is supposedly problematic... I am not one to believe that something, especially with computers, simply can't be done. Sooo... I have an extensive Excel Userform-based estimating program I've been writing for the last 7 months. I am now to a point where I'm about to release it and I want to keep the guts protected. However, when the final form is copied into the new workbook, my deletevbacode macro won't run because the protection of the VBCode carries over. So here's my question(s): Is there a way to programmatically lock/unlock the VBAProject If not, then how can I keep the project protection from carrying over into the new workbook If neither of the above are a possibility - I'm open for suggestions... Thanks in advance! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Properties on outlook2003 folders Hello I have a question regarding user properties and MAPIFolder object. In the Outlook 2007 object model I can do something like this, Outlook.MAPIFolder folder = explorer.CurrentFolder; folder.UserDefinedProperties.Add("myUP",Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlUserPropertyType.olNumber, missing, missing); In the Outlook 2003 object model I do not have that possibility, (no folder.UserDefinedProperties property). What is the best way to attach custom properties to a folder in Outlook 2003 Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - word range to html? hi everyone, i'm parsing a word document (using .net c#) and i need to transform parts of it to html... i know that word has the option to save documents as html but is there a way to save only parts of the document as html (range => html) my solution so far is to create a new document paste the range there and then save the entire document as html. this solution is way too complex and goofy for my taste... any other (more simple) ways to do this thanks! Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Sending a copy of an Excel 2007 workbook as an attachment Hi, I'm currently attemping an Excel 2007 plugin. Part of this plugin involves a button that, when clicked, launches the "send mail" window of Outlook and attaches the last saved copy of the spreadsheet as an attachment. (The user would then fill in the recipient address, message subject, etc. in the same way as sending an e-mail with Outlook.) My problem is finding an example that would do this. My searches let me to this article, but I'm having difficulty converting it to C#. So, my questions: If the approach in the article I linked is correct, would someone assist me with getting the code to work with VSTO and C# If the approach in the article I linked is incorrect, would someone please provide a pointer to documentaion that explains the correct way of doing it Thanks --K Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Debugging VSTO SE/Outlook on mapped drive fails, works from the C drive. I get a security error when I try to debug my VSTO SE/Outlook add-in from a mapped drive. If I move it to my c drive, it works. The properties for the app are set to Trust Assembly Location=True. The biggest issue is that I cannot have a centralized location for my code. Any ideas Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - How to integrate infopath form with asp.net application Dear ALL How can ve integrate infopath (2003) forms with asp.net , such design forms in infopath and running in asp.net application , i have search google i have found companies like aspose.com and infoview.net who have such componot my question is how to design such component Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - string.contains method optimization Hi, In my Word customization it's necessary for me to use the string.contains method to do a line by line, word by word comparison -- .equals and the other reference check methods are not enough. String.contains is very accurate however it's a bit slow. I wanted to know if there's a way to optimize .contains' performance Thanks. Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - C# Footers and AutoTextEntries Word 2003, C#, Using PIA Code Snippet To the Primary Footer I add some text successfully: doc.Sections[1].Headers[WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary].Range.Text = "Baha'i Faith"; I then wish to append the AutoText Page X of Y. But how This is how it's done in VBA: With wordApp.ActiveDocument With .Sections.Item(1) wordApp.NormalTemplate.AutoTextEntries.Item("Page X of Y").Insert(Where:=.Footers.Item(Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range, RichText:=True) End With End With HOW is that done in C# Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Reading an Excel range into Object(,) - 1 based? Hi, I've been using something I learned (probably here), but don't really understand what's going on. I read ranges into a variable with the following: Dim mValues As Object (,) = _ CType (Globals.Sheet1.Range(Cell(r1, c1), Cell(r2,c2)).Value, Object (,)) Where I use "Cell" to save typing: Private Shared Function Cell( ByVal Row As Integer , ByVal Column As Integer ) _ As Excel.Range Return CType (Globals.sheet1.Cells.Item(Row, Column), Excel.Range) End Function This works tremendously faster than reading in values cell by cell. When I do this, however, mValues becomes a 1-based array. First, I don't understand what's going on that would make that happen. Second, I didn't think you could have 1-based arrays! Can anyone give me some insight as to what's going on here ------------- Some related questions -- Can I change this 1-based array into a 0-based array without the overhead of copying each element from one array to the other It would often be convenient to have a 1-dim array containing a row of the 2-dim array. Is there a fast way to make this assignment That is, is there something that would be faster than copying each element for some row over Or perhaps is there a way to pass one row of the 2-dim array as an argument I'd appreciate any insight or suggestions. Thanks Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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    - Custom Oulook Forum Hi I am new to VSTO and outlook programming. I want to cutomize outlook form and want to have its interaction with database. I want to use VSTO. I am not sure how I can make interaction possible, how to load form controls (dropdown) from database and then save selected dropdown value in database. If someone has good link or sample code. Please share. Thanks AllTec Tag: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!! Office
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koms

Hi All,

After reading quite a few posts and trying out various shortcuts or hacks to acheive an "Application Level Task Pane" for Word 2003, i have really come to a grinding halt !! few of the paths that i followed were

1. Tried to modify the XML of a WORD document by adding the _AssembleName=* and _AssemblyLocation custom document properties....

I am now trying to acheive this by Attaching Managed Code Extensions to Documents...still work in progress

i guess my question would be that in one of these posts Misha Shneerson did point out that it was possible to attach a task pane at an Application level but could only be acheived by someone like her who knows the internals of ActionsPane and VSTO and that it wasnt for the *****Faint Hearted*****.... still trying to locate that post... so if any one could point me in the right direction or suggest an alternative, that would be great !!!

I know that Custom Task panes are possible in word 12/ 2007... but i def. require to achieve this with word 2003 / Office Pro edition... as our target audience is not likely to move to office 2007 for quite some time !!!

If i haven't been clear please do ask for clarifications !!!

tha,

koms

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Re: Visual Studio Tools for Office Attaching custom actions Pane to all documents !!!

Andrew Whitechapel - MSFT

Unfortunately, there is no supported way to add an application-level task pane in Word 2003, because Word 2003 does not support this. The technology that is closest to this is the document-level ActionsPane. This, in turn, relies on the VSTO implementation of ISmartDocument, which is an interface that Word 2003 does support. However, this is intended specifically to be document-level.

After the success of the document-level VSTO ActionsPane, it became clear that there is a customer need for an application-level equivalent, so we certainly recognize the requirement. This is one of the reasons that the 2007 Microsoft Office System includes significant major new work in order to enable the application-level task pane technology.

You might be able to hack something together that might emulate an app-level task pane in Word 2003, but there is no supported mechanism for this, so your best approach really is to encourage your target audience to move to Office 2007 if they need this technology.

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