The world of managed com addins is a mess. VSTO has not been received well and the story of unmanaged code (Excel) and managed code is of deployment and stability nightmares.
There are a quite a few things right from the off that cause problems for Office devs wanting to use .Net technology:
- .Net is inherently […]
If you don’t know what Visual Studio Tools for Applications is then you need to read this. If you do, I hope this might provide some more insight.
At the recent UK Office User Group meeting the topic of VSTA came up and the only real thing that came out of the ensuing discussion was that […]
Clearly having more spare time on his hand than me (or maybe he’s just not as lazy and bad at writing!) Simon has written up an excellent review of the UK OUG in Reading:
Just like Simon I really enjoyed the event. All the speakers came across really well, and the presentations where excellent.
Personally I […]
I don’t really know anything about Analysis Services, but MS have just pushed out some addins for leverageing this part of SQL2005 from Excel 2007 - Thought this might be useful to some folks (I’m thinking of Will!)