Word for Developers announcements

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  Documentation for Office 2013 Ribbon controls now available
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:40 AM

  I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.

  Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727

  From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.

  Best Regards,
  Nathan O.
  Microsoft Online Community Support

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  Roadmap: Apps for Office, VSTO & VBA
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:34 PM

  Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VBA.  Rest assured that VBA continues to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO & VBA for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.

  To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".

  -- Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT)

General Office Development announcements

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  Roadmap: Apps for Office, VSTO & VBA
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:35 PM

  Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO & VBA.  Rest assured that VSTO & VBA continue to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO & VBA for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.

  To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".

  -- Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT)

Open XML Format SDK announcements

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  Release: ECMA-376 Standard, 4th Edition
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:00 PM

  The ECMA-376 4th Edition of the OOXML standard has been released (December 2012) and is available for download:
  http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

  Still not available are the Microsoft Office Implementations for the "Ribbon" and other special parts not part of the Office Open XML specification.

   
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  Release of the Open XML SDK 2.5
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Monday, December 10, 2012 7:26 AM

  The download page for the Open XML SDK 2.5 for Microsoft Office is now providing the RTW version of Open XML SDK 2.5. You can use this version for production. We are now updating the documentation in MSDN. Until the publication of the updated documentation, please refer to the SDK document in Productivity Tool.

  The differences between the CTP and the RTW versions exist in the classes of "Office15", and those are renamed to "Office2013". Also we are preparing a set of sample code demonstrating how the classes can be used.

  Regards,

  Kazunori Matsuura
  Open XML SDK 2.5

Outlook for Developers announcements

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  Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
  Eric Legault [Outlook MVP] MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:16 PM

  Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO.  Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
   
  To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
  
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  Office/Outlook 2010 Redistributable PIA's Released
  Ken Slovak MVP MVP Thursday, September 09, 2010 5:49 PM

  The Office/Outlook 2010 Redistributable PIA's have finally been released, the download location is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=938fe8ad-583b-4bd7-a345-23250dc15855.

  Thanks to Patrick Creehan for the announcement in his blog.

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements

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  Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012: Now Available with Office 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5 support
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Wednesday, March 06, 2013 2:22 PM

  UPDATE: The Visual Studio 2013 Preview announced during the last week of June 2013 includes the separate downloads described below required for support of .NET 4.5.1 and design-time support for Office 2013.

  I'm pleased to announce that the official Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is now available to download! For VSTO developers, this release brings .NET 4.5 support and design-time support for Office 2013, along with general design-time enhancements and bug fixes to the VSTO Runtime (released separately a few months ago via our download center and Windows Update; see KB 2796590 for information regarding the Runtime). We also heard your feedback from "Preview 2" of the tools, including the request to bring back the VSTO Runtime Bootstrapper into VS 2012 -- it is now back in the product.

  Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 also includes tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint projects, improvements to SharePoint Workflows, and more. You can read the official announcement for apps-related tooling on Soma’s blog post.

  

  VSTO Office 2013 design-time support in Visual Studio 2012.

  Note: Now that's we've added .NET 4.5 support to 2013, we've properly re-categorized the templates in the "New Project" dialog according to the .NET framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates after installing the latest tools, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0". Again, to recap, both the 2010 and 2013 templates support .NET Framework 4.0, but only the 2013 templates support .NET Framework 4.5 -- and the "New Project" dialog respects that categorization.

  

   

  I hope you enjoy using our new tools! If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

  - Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office

  
  
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  Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:40 PM

  Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO.  Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well.  In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now.  At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.

  To learn more, please see the blog post:  "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
  

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  Documentation for Office 2013 Ribbon controls now available
  Cindy Meister MVP MVP Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:49 AM

  I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.

  Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727

  From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.

  Best Regards,
  Nathan O.
  Microsoft Online Community Support