Office Development with VS 2010

Get up to date with office development on .net platform with Somasegar's post here

My personal favourite is simplification of .net's integration with COM's OM.

As per the example posted in Somasegar's blog.

Instead of doing the following

object fileName = "Test.docx";

object missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

doc.SaveAs(ref fileName,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

You can do with VS 2010

object fileName = "Test.docx";

doc.SaveAs(fileName);

PDC 2007 Presentation downloads

Following is a link to download all three (solo) presentations that I made during Pakistan Developer Conference last week.

Download here.

I will soon be writing a commentary on the presentations. I would love to hear from you all. Just drop me a post for your comments and queries and i will reply back.

VSTO Presentation

So as i posted earlier that I will be attending Geeks Conference as well doing a presentation on developing office clients using VSTO SE. So I did the presentation and i believe it went well. I was just short of time in the end and had some issues with display unit as well. But overall it was fun being there. Audience was visibly smaller in number as compared to the last time. I am told that presentation will be made available soon on the conference web site. However if you are interested in getting the slide deck or demo code then feel free to leave your comment with your email address and i will get back to you as soon as i can.

VSTO and VSTO SE compatability issues

I was working on few demos based on VSTO so that I can present them during GulfGeeks conference later this week.
I am using VSTO/VSTO SE on top of VS 2005. All the add-in projects are working absolutely fine. The problem comes when i want to use VS 2005 project templates for document level office projects. I am unable to have a design time experience even on the projects that I created before installing VSTO SE. But the interesting thing is that I am able to run old vsto based solutions, that means that run time is behaving fine. I have posted query on a private MVP new group.
I believe all such issues will be taken care of by the time Orcas is released!

Gulf Geeks Conference

I will soon be working on slide deck as well code demonstrations for Gulf Geeks Conference. Scheduled for next week in Dubai, UAE. I believe it will be a very exciting experience. I have fond memories of last years event and i am hoping that this time it will be even bigger and better.