Articles filed in category 'Visual Studio Tools for Office'

  • 20 Cool Visual Studio .NET IDE Features
    In this article Markus Egger surveys 20 often-overlooked productivity features of the Visual Studio .NET IDE—from the customizable Start Page, dynamic help and flexible window layout to IntelliSense, macros, clipboard ring and advanced search—showing how these tools and granular options empower developers to tailor the environment, streamline coding tasks, and boost efficiency, while encouraging exploration and extension via macros or add-ins.
  • Ask the Doc Detective
    In “Ask the Doc Detective,” Doc Detective offers practical guidance for navigating and solving tricky issues within Microsoft Visual Studio documentation, emphasizing how elusive or obscure details can hinder problem-solving. Through user-submitted questions, Doc addresses specific technical challenges—such as 64-bit PrintDialog behavior, locating version-specific VSTO resources, customizing Visual Studio menus, and fixing DataRepeater control quirks—while also sharing t...See More
  • Post Mortem Web Project
    First Premier Bankcard (www.firstpremier.com) is the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the United States.First Premier employs multiple thousands of people spread across the state of South Dakota. A major percentage of the employees at First Premier work in call-center operations helping people apply for credit cards.
  • The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Using Microsoft PowerPivot and DAX Formulas
    I know what you’re thinking: an article in CODE Magazine about Excel and PowerPivot? Yes, that’s correct; this installment of the “Baker’s Dozen” covers an important new tool to come out of Redmond: Microsoft PowerPivot. In a nutshell, PowerPivot provides some of the business intelligence capabilities that developers are accustomed to seeing in OLAP tools like Microsoft Analysis Services. So why should you and I care? Because these “end-user” tools still require some pro...See More