Vsto resource Summary (by Asli Bilgin)

Vsto Resources

Bits & bytes

· Get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

· Visit the Visual Studio Tools for office Forum

· Visit the vsto Developer Center

· Get the Oba/vsto starter kit v. 1.0

· Try the O2 Oba challenge

· Visit Oba Central

Webcasts

· Msdn webcast: Visual Studio Tools for office straight from the experts: Ken Getz (level 200)

· Msdn webcast: Visual Studio Tools for office straight from the experts: Robert Green (level 200)

· Msdn webcast: Visual Studio Tools for office straight from the experts: Tim Huckaby (level 200)

· Msdn webcast: Visual Studio Tools for office straight from the experts: Paul Ballard (level 200)

Blogs

· The nicest man at MSFT (and he plays a mean guitar too): Mike Hernandez blog

· Paul Stubbs-Senior Program Manager

· Vsto2 blog

· Best of vsto blogs

· Brian Goldfarb, group product manager-he can demo a fetching vsto

· Chris Castillo's Weblog

· John Durant

· Tim Huckaby

· Ken Getz blog

· Kathleen McGrath

· Paul Stubbs

· Paul Ballard

Tech talks

· Vsto and security-Eric lippert, vsto team, Senior Software Dev Engineer

· Scope of vstomartin Sawicki, Program Manager vsto

· Why a vsto runtime? Thomas "TQ" Quinn-principal effecect & christin Boyd-customer Program Manager (she knows things, just ask her)

Demos

· Video demo: vsto and VBA InterOP

· How do I videos

· Vsto democatherine Heller, technical evangelist-Windows Live

· Extend VBA with. Net Eric schnepp, principal program manager in the vsto team

Labs

· Msdn virtual lab: building custom office applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for office Part 1-data binding with word content controls

· Msdn virtual lab: building custom office applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for office Part 2-create an outlook add-in with a form Region

· Msdn virtual lab: building custom office applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for office Part 3-build an Excel add-in with ribbon and custom task pane Integration

· Msdn virtual lab: building custom office applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for office Part 4-create a Sharepoint Workflow