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  • Outlook add-in does not install and work properly on non development machines
    by Kishore79
    5 Replies
    Last post by arvindram
      • Hello, I am using VS2005 SP1 and outlook 2003. I wrote an outlook add-in that creates a new menu in message view and written custom code for the same. If i compile the add-in in the VS IDE, it works correctly. If i try to install my self by selecting my addin from Tools-->options-->Other-->advanced--> add-in manager, I get an error message <path> is not a valid office ad
  • Please help with pasting clipboard into Rich Text Field
    by Emma Dove
    8 Replies
    Last post by Cindy Meister
      • Hi all, I'm new to C#. After 7 years developing lotus notes solutions in LotusScript, JS and VBS I decided if I couldn't beat them I'd join them and I'm now creating Sharepoint solutions amongst other things. After false starts with VBS and JS Infopath I have come to realise that C# is the way forward. I've re-rwitten my biggest form using C# and it's let me do everything I ne
  • Custom icons will not display on the ribbon
    by errorfunktion
    1 Replies
    Last post by Robert Green
      • Hi, I've used the custom UI editor to try to add an icon my a button on a new tab. The new button is added but the icon is not displayed on it. The contents of the customUI folder is: _rels\customUI.xml.rels: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > - < Relationships xmlns =" http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships " >
  • Stroing additional data along with a cell
    by sameera
    18 Replies
    Last post by sameera
      • Hi, I need to store some additional data along with a cell in a VSTO app. This could for example, include an internal ID; data that the user need not see or edit. I would want to save this data along with the worksheet as well. What we've done so far is to use Comments with the required cells. Comments however can easily be messed up by the user. Is there a more "elegant" way to ac
  • VSTO 2005 SE, Office 2007, and ... Visio for EA version?
    by lex3001
    3 Replies
    Last post by Ji Zhou ¨C MSFT
      • Ok... I am setting up a new Vista x64 workstation for development. I am going to install VSTO 2005 SE which wants me to have just one version of office installed. That is going to be Office 2007. However, I also want to install and use Visio for Enterprise Architects off of the Visual Studio Team System 2005 Developer Edition DVD... I assume that is going to be Visio 11 (Office 2003)
  • 2 versions of Excel add-in
    by jk_uk2
    1 Replies
    Last post by jk_AnalysisServices
      • Hi, I have an existing version of an Excel 2003 add-in, built using VSTOSE, that's working fine. I would like install a new UAT version of this add-in, alongside the current add-in. I've tried to to do this, but each time I build one version of my add-in it just overwrites/overdeploys the other version. The steps that I've taken are: 1)Copy my existing project; 2)Ren
  • Smart tags Word 2007 VSTO 2005 SE
    by EagleWizard
    3 Replies
    Last post by Misha Shneerson - MSFT
      • Hi, I'm having a problem with smart tags in Word 2007. I just can't find how to add them. On the microsoft site their are lots of walkthroughs for VSTO 2005. But in the VSTO 2005 SE, you can't use me.VSTOSmartTags anymore Thanks in advance
  • vsto vb.net need table in table or wrap rows?
    by Grant60601
    3 Replies
    Last post by Cindy Meister
      • I am building a table and am getting data for the table from sqlserver. The columns that are being returned need to be wrapped into a second row. I was thinking of the folloing logic. Create table 1, loop through data, create table with 2 rows, fill table 2 with data for the record, next. Is this the best approach or is their a method that would wrap the columns into the next column
  • Outlook AddIn; Using Default Outlook screens in winform
    by simon.bruynsteen
    1 Replies
    Last post by Sue Mosher - Outlook MVP
      • Hi, I'm developing an outlook addin that allows the users to browse data from our business application. I added some new functionalities, therefore I used formregions and winforms in Outlook. I want to add a button to lookup a contact person and fill in the contact person in a textbox. Is it possible to use the default outlook lookup form for contact persons, as you can find it in a
  • Excel Addin.
    by kjell nilsson
    8 Replies
    Last post by Dennis Wallentin
      • Hi. I have built an Excel addin for extracting data from Sql server. Now i wonder how to imort a textstring to a sheet/workbook or other containing the selected data. Before i have imported a textfile using workbooks.opentext function for importing a file. Is there a way of importing a string or must i save it as a temporary file first Best Regards Kjell Nilsson
  • Make excel workbook readonly
    by bullpit
    5 Replies
    Last post by Ji Zhou ¨C MSFT
      • Hi all, I am doing some excel automation from my windows application. From the code, I open an Excel Workbook, write into it, and then close it while saving it. Is it possible to make this file or workbook readonly It should be strictly readonly and nobody should be able to modify it, even by doing a right click and unchecking the Read Only checkbox from the Properties. This is what I tr
  • Problem with Installer
    by Malleswar
    9 Replies
    Last post by Malleswar
      • Hi, I have prepared installer for Excel Ad-in. I have installed manually VSTO and PIA, Coz target machine was giving problem to install them thru installer. Atleast it didnot work in this way. It copy the dlls from my setup and does nothing else. When I run from IDE it works fine and also the same setup working on when I run on the same machine where I developed. I have given the code. Can an
  • Publishing VSTO 2005 SE addin to a network location
    by Rakesh Rathod
    14 Replies
    Last post by techno_adi
      • Hi, I want to publish my Outlook add-in build using VSTO 2005 SE to a network location so that updates can be automatically pushed to all users later. The steps mentioned for this are as follows: In Visual Studio, use the Publish Wizard to deploy your solution to a server. Make changes to security policy so that each end user can run the solution. Create the required registry entrie
  • Converting Interoped Code to Managed Code
    by PaulNations
    9 Replies
    Last post by Sue Mosher - Outlook MVP
      • I have an old VB6 program that uses Word automation to fill in a bunch of bookmarks with text from the database. I urgently need to rewrite it, as it only works on a few relic machines now. When I started the conversion I see that the Bookmark.Range object has been deleted from the .NET object model. I'm trying to download the new definition from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx fam
  • VSTO 2005 SE Word 2003 addin won't load
    by IreneSmith
    5 Replies
    Last post by van_owen
      • I have been reading through everybody else's questions about why their addin won't load and I've tried everything I've come across but my Word 2003 addin will not load on anyone's computer but mine. These are the things I have done so far: I used the VSTO project template for Word 2003 to create the addin project. I added the SetSecurity project. I included output from both SetSecur
  • Create MergeField from string
    by Toxter
    7 Replies
    Last post by Toxter
      • Hello everyone. I'm developing Word 2007 AddIn in C#. What I'm trying to implement last couple of days is drag&drop from my custom task pane to Word document. I'm trying to drag&drop and when object is dropped to create MergeField. All I could do so far is to drag&drop string (text). So, the main question is: Can I format text which will be dropped to Word in
  • Office add-ins not running on clients
    by LasseJ
    4 Replies
    Last post by thorkia
      • Hi I've recently developed a office add-in for powerpoint but the add-in doesn't load, I'm using the installer included in the package and the client does have vstor and interop assemblies installed. If I make an application on the client using visual studio and making a debug or release, it runs fine. Thanks // Lasse
  • Customize Outlook View--use Custom Task/Form, or what?
    by David Swain
    2 Replies
    Last post by Hiren
      • I am looking for how to implement the following: Modify Outlook UI (VSTO, I assume), so the Mailbox view, the navigation pane displays a list of folders, which are not mail folders. They would be folders which represent folders say on our document storage server. The user should be able to "move" items from say their inbox folder, DRAG AND DROP onto these custom folders men
  • add-in not working through setup project
    by DKUS007
    2 Replies
    Last post by DKUS007
      • Hi all, I have the following problem: I've made an PowerPoint managed add-in using C#, VS 2005 , VSTO SE and PowerPoint 2003. The problem is that when click F5 on VS the add-in strarts, installs commandbars, buttons etc. and works fine. If stop debug mode of VS and strat PowerPoint manually the add-in still works, BUT if after it start the Setup and install the add
  • MS Word COM object problem
    by Utku Selamo&amp;#287;lu
    2 Replies
    Last post by Ji Zhou ¨C MSFT
      • hi, i used the Com object of (MS Office word 11) i added as a reference changed the web config and dcomcnfg i did everything and i used it. but suddenly my application started not to work. Can anybody help me about this issue i think the changes that i have made could affect the application start up. My application start after i get login it locks. thanks so much utku selamoglu
  • Shortcut Key for excel addin
    by Mohan Kumar Karunakaran
    13 Replies
    Last post by Ji Zhou ¨C MSFT
      • Hi, Is there anyway to assign a shortcut key for the procedures I have created in excel addin using VSTO 2005 SE. I have designed ribbon for these procedures and I would like to access it with shortcut keys like Ctrl + Alt + B or Ctrl + Shift + R I can assign keytip in ribbon.xml file but it uses Alt combinations and not easily accessible also for custom created procedures. I would l
  • Change Outlook email address "to" in BeforeCheckNames()
    by Alexander Olekhnovich
    3 Replies
    Last post by Christin-MSFT
      • Hi all, I'm developing an MS Outlook Add-in with VSTO (VB.NET). I've to change an email address before sending it, but here is a problem that the field "to" is ReadOnly. So I've to turn off the email address verification or change that field in BeforeCheckNames() somehow. Any ideas Best Regards Alexander Olekhnovich
  • Looping Through Open Word Documents
    by Roman Benko
    1 Replies
    Last post by Cindy Meister
      • I am working with Orcas and VSTO Beta 1. I created a new Word document project called TestWord that contains a custom ribbon. If a user has multiple Word documents open at any given time, how can I loop through them and determine which ones, if any, are my custom type containing the ribbon Thanks.
  • Performance/Display issues with Windows Forms
    by kewpcg
    5 Replies
    Last post by X4U
      • I have a VSTO Add-in for Word 2007. It contains several windows forms - some small with few controls, some quite large with numerous controls. I have noticed two problem areas in testing my application, and hoping someone might have some suggestions: 1. When the form is displayed (using ShowDialog), it paints slowly - so you can see it "constructing" itself momentarily. In
  • PowerPoint 2007 Close Event ???
    by D.C
    1 Replies
    Last post by Misha Shneerson - MSFT
      • Hi, I am working on a project which requires me to create an Add-in to work with PowerPoint 2007 . Now here we dont have any event as BeforeClose in PowerPoint like in Word. I want to close PowerPoint on conditional bases from the application. I am using VS 2005, .Net 3.0, Office 2007. Can any one please show me any solution for the same.. Thanks in Advance...