Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office SystemBuild customized business solutions with Microsoft OfficeThe Reports of VBA's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated- January 17, 2008 There&8217;s recently been some confusing information circulating about the future of VBA in the press that we want to clear up. The report that the next generation of Office will not contain VBA is untrue &8211; the next generation of the Microsoft Office system will definitely contain all of the functionality that developers and power users expect from VBA.&160; What is correct is that we will no longer license Visual Basic for Applications to new partners, as previously announced on...http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/16/the-reports-of-vba-s-demise-have-been-great... VSTO Runtime Assembly Name Changes from Beta 2 to RTM- January 9, 2008 If you created a project for Microsoft Office 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you will probably see a number of broken assembly references if you open the project in the final release of Visual Studio 2008. This is because most of the assemblies in the version of the VSTO runtime that is used for Microsoft Office 2007 projects were changed after Beta 2. To fix the errors, replace any broken references to assemblies in the first column of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/09/vsto-runtime-assembly-name-changes-from-bet... Hiding and Showing an Adjoining Outlook Form Region- January 3, 2008 There is no way to show or hide an adjoining form region at run time. However, you can show and hide a custom task pane at run time. Therefore, if you need to give your users the ability to show and hide a UI panel in an Outlook item, consider using a custom task pane. The following screen shot shows a custom task pane beneath an adjoining form region. They look very similar at first glance. However, there are a few differences in their behavior and in the way they are implemented - more on...http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/03/hiding-and-showing-an-adjoining-outlook-for... |