September 2006 Entries
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta.
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:59 AM

I was very excited to see the beta release of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta (a.k.a. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta, or VSTO 2005 SE Beta for short), a fully-supported, free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that empowers developers with the ability to build applications targeting the 2007 Office system.

The VSTO 2005 SE Beta includes the following functionality:

·         Application-level add-in support for the most popular Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 Office System applications including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath (2007 version only). It also provides safe loading/unloading and easy management of managed add-ins.

·         Support for key Office 2007 features: programming model and runtime support for the ribbon, custom task panes, and Outlook form regions.

·         Design-time support for InfoPath 2007 form templates, which means that you can build your forms right inside Visual Studio. 

·         Support for maintainability and compatibility. The VSTO 2005 SE Beta ensures that the applications you’ve built on Office 2003 with VSTO 2005 continue to run with the 2007 Office system.

·         VSTO 2005 SE Beta runs in Visual Studio 2005 Professional and above.

 Go ahead download it from here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5012A573-0D84-4E39-983C-CA22F2107B07&displaylang=en 

 

also checkout the brand new VSTO 2005 SE page in the VSTO Developer Portal, so please be sure to checkout this site. Here you'll find links to blogs, technical articles, the forum, and various downloads.

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Presentation tonight
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:10 AM

 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Paul George, MVP on vocals and Shervin Shakibi, Regional Director on keyboard - September 14 at GCUG in Boca Raton

Come see the next wave of technology for developing User Interfaces (UI).  WPF uses a XML based markup language that is a brand new way to develop and successfully seperates the graphic design and code development phases.  Paul and Shervin will show you how to work with WPF in generating 2D/3D graphics, animations and integrate data.  They also introduce some new tools for working with WPF in addition to VS 2005.

** Raffle of Visual Studio Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription - 10K value **
** RSVP for a DVD with a Vista RC1 VPC on it **

When: September 14, 6:30PM
Where: Embassy Suites Yamato Road, Boca Raton
RSVP: GCUGRSVP@gcusersgroup.org
UG Membership: $40/year, $5 donation requested from non members at meeting to help cover room costs, Corporate membership $400/year
Directions: Just west of I-95 and the Tri-Rail tracks on Yamato Road, go north on 8th ave and follow it around to Embassy Suites. Extra parking is available in the garage behind the One Park Place office building directly adjacent to the Embassy. See map at http://homnick.com/location.aspx
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