Rebecca's VSTA Blog

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  • Getting ALT+F11 in Windows Forms

    There is no real mystery to this, but I spent a few cycles on it and maybe it will help someone else. When I first implemented this, I didn't set KeyPreview to true and I never received the KeyDown event. . . m_form.KeyPreview = true ; m_form.KeyDown...

  • A few things I learned when exposing events

    I have been trying to create a simple object model that exposes some properties and some events to VSTA. I had a little trouble with the events and here are a few things that I have learned: First, you must declare your delegate outside of a class. If...

  • Loading add-ins

    This model comes from from Tom Quinn's May 16, 2006 blog entry on adapters ( http://blogs.msdn.com/tq/ ). Also note that JackG compares and contrasts the VSTA model with the CLR addin pipeline in his March 14, 2007 blog entry ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg...

  • Getting Started with VSTA

    I was pretty excited to take a look at VSTA, so in my exuberance, I jumped right in and started building and running samples. While the samples are very colorful and interesting, that technique didn't offer much insight on VSTA. So, I started pouring...

  • Issues opening VSTA project in Visual Studio

    Whenever I tried to open any of the VSTA projects in Visual Studio, I received the following error: The project file <name>.csproj cannot be opened. This project type is not supported by this installation. or The project file <name>.vbproj...
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