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2. Mike Hernandez Product Manager, VSTO Microsoft Corporation
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Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Technical Preview for the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Overview and Application-Level Add-ins
Mike Hernandez
Product Manager, VSTO
Microsoft Corporation
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3. 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
Session Agenda
Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
VSTO ‘V3’ Infrastructure Improvements
VSTO ‘V3’ New App-level Features
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4. Introducing: Visual Studio Tools for Office
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Introducing: Visual Studio Tools for Office
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5. Future of Information Work
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Future of Information Work
Increasing Productivity
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6. Smart Clients Based on Microsoft Office
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Smart Clients Based on Microsoft Office
Bedrock of features to leverage
Rich user experience provided by Microsoft Office applications
XML schemas provide custom business structure
Actions task pane and Smart Tags enable contextual UIs
Online / Offline capable
Broadly used by knowledge workers
Familiar authoring and formatting of business documents
Analysis and calculation of business data
Information sharing and collaboration
Capitalize on the benefits of the Microsoft Office System
Power of Microsoft Office System investments
Improved end-user productivity and reduced data errors
Substantially reduce end-user training costs
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7. VSTO Version 3.0 (early thinking)
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2007 Microsoft Office system-specifics: new features, file format, UI
App-level add-ins for most client programs
Deeper server side programming
Microsoft Office Excel User-Defined Funcs (client/server)
Workflow & Microsoft SharePoint support
Mobile device support
VSTO Version 3.0 (early thinking)
VSTO 2005
Custom ActionsPane
Host Controls on the document surface
Cached Data in the document
Server-side data processing
App-level add-ins for Microsoft Office Outlook
Manifest-based deployment & update
App-level add-ins for “big 6” Office 2007 applications
Fast loading and fine-grained UI reporting
Implementation of IServiceProvider to support new extensibility features
Runtime support for custom task pane, ribbon, form region
VSTO “Cypress”
VSTO 2003
Document-level code behind
Brings Microsoft Office into the managed world
Strict security model
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8. Reasons for Using VSTO vs. VBA
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Reasons for Using VSTO vs. VBA
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA*) is a 1990’s Technology
Subset syntax = limited functionality & flexibility
Code in document = no source code/version control
Casual security model = high potential security risk
Access to limited controls within Microsoft Office applications
Visual Studio Tools for Office is 100% .NET
Complete syntax (Professional languages)
Choice of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C#
Code Behind = mainstream source code control
“Publish” deployment for easier version control
.NET Security model = robust security enforced
Complete access to managed controls
* There are no pending plans to retire VBA at this time
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9. VSTO ‘V3’ Infrastructure Improvements
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VSTO ‘V3’ Infrastructure Improvements
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10. VSTO 'V3' Infrastructure Investments
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VSTO 'V3' Infrastructure Investments
VSTO 'V3' will balance features with infrastructure
Emphasize non-functional requirements as well as new functional features
Standardize on platform infrastructure
VSTO => VSTA => MAF
Version resilience
VSTO Runtime runs any version of VSTO solutions
Improved deployment and security
Standardize on the add-in model
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11. VSTO Deployment And Security
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VSTO Deployment And Security
VSTO 2005
Publish model deployment - flexible but complicated
Security is very strict but difficult to administer
VSTO 'V3'
ClickOnce
Standard model, tools, administration
Simplified security
CAS deployment is customers’ biggest pain point
CAS policy tied to version of .NET Framework
No longer dependent on CLR version
We take care of storing the security policy
Still use CAS to secure code – no longer need to use CAS policy to determine trust
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12. Converging Add-In Models
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Converging Add-In Models
Converging existing models into on efficient model
First fully-supported managed add-in model for Office; all others COM-based
All major new extensibility features are implemented via add-ins
Custom task panes, ribbon customization, Outlook custom form regions, etc
Standard QueryInterface/QueryService model
Standard design-time experience
Different interfaces exposed in a consistent manner
Microsoft Office and VSTO work to define optimal interfaces
VSTO add-ins use a streamlined load path
Microsoft Office knows more information about VSTO add-ins
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13. Microsoft Office Open XML File Formats
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Microsoft Office Open XML File Formats
VSTO ‘V3’
The new file format is built from XML parts and is customizable
We customize the XML file for our purposes
We no longer need the runtime storage control
Store cached data manifest and cached data in doc
Microsoft Office APIs on client, .NET Framework 3.0 APIs on server
ServerDocument completely eliminates Microsoft Office automation on the server
Word content controls operate on “data islands”
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14. VSTO ‘V3’ New App-level Features
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VSTO ‘V3’ New App-level Features
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15. VSTO ‘V3’ New App-Level Features
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VSTO ‘V3’ New App-Level Features
VSTO 2005 – document centric; VSTO V3 – app-level focus
Create app-level add-ins for any application in Microsoft Office
New 2007 Microsoft Office system UI features
Custom task panes, ribbon customization, Outlook custom form regions
VSTO value-add
RAD design-time experience for add-in projects
Robust, flexible runtime infrastructure
SharePoint/Workflow projects
…and more…
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16. VSTO Add-Ins – Why? Robustness and scalability
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VSTO Add-Ins – Why?
Robustness and scalability
Appdomain isolation
They can be unloaded
Strong typing
The VSTO add-in model becomes the standard for Microsoft Office extensibility
A single standard model for multiple interfaces
Per-add-in disable/enable (blacklisting)
Support for existing managed “shared” add-ins
Design-time support
Project types, class templates, designers + code-gen
Deployment and security
Remote deployment capability
Automatic updates
Security chokepoint
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17. Microsoft Office Host App
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Add-In Architecture
DefaultDomain
VSTO Runtime:
AddinManager SecurityManager
Microsoft Office Host App
AddinLoader
IDTExtensibility2
Adapter
Domain #2
Add-in
AddinLoader
IDTExtensibility2
Adapter
Domain #3
Add-in
AddinLoader
IDTExtensibility2 Adapter
Domain #4
Add-in
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18. 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
VSTO Add-ins
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19. 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
Custom Task Panes
VSTO 'V3' adds app-level task panes to VSTO 2005 doc-level ActionsPane
Create custom task panes with an add-in
Add-in support  task pane support
Access, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word
Main application window or (Outlook) inspectors
Fill the custom task pane with UserControls
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20. Custom Task Panes 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
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Ribbon Customization
Tab
Ribbon
Group
Control
Declarative (XML) model, backed by an object model to program against
Doc-level, with VSTO doc-level customizations for Microsoft Office Word and Office Excel
App-level, with VSTO add-ins for all apps that support app-level ribbon customization
Microsoft Office Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word
Main application window or (Outlook) inspectors
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22. Ribbon Customization 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
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23. Outlook Custom Form Regions
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Outlook Custom Form Regions
Implement a custom form region with an add-in
Runtime and design-time support
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24. Outlook Form Regions 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
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25. 5/20/2018 2:53 AM
Summary
The 2007 Microsoft Office System provides a platform upon which you can build LOB client solutions
VSTO gives professional developers a powerful toolset with which to build those solutions
VSTO ‘V3’ supports a variety of features in the new release of Microsoft Office
VSTO ‘V3’ incorporates a number of key improvements over the previous version
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26. We’re Looking for VSTO Solutions
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We’re Looking for VSTO Solutions
We’re looking for real-world applications built with VSTO 2003 or VSTO 2005
We want to test them for compatibility with VSTO V3
We’re primarily interested in your deployed applications (not the source code)
Interested? Contact us at
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27. For More Information MSDN Developer Centers
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For More Information
MSDN Developer Centers
VSTO section of the Microsoft Office Developer Center
VSTO section of the Smart Client Developer Center
VSTO Forum
VSTO-related blogs
CTP Download
VSTO Forum Resources
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28. Resources Technical Chats and Webcasts
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Resources
Technical Chats and Webcasts
Microsoft Learning and Certification
MSDN & TechNet
Virtual Labs
Newsgroups
communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
Technical Community Sites
User Groups
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