{"id":1543,"date":"2016-10-04T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:33","slug":"experience-first-vsto-instead-vba-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/experience-first-vsto-instead-vba-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience of my first VSTO instead of VBA plugin."},"content":{"rendered":"

The first plug in I am to design in VSTO (not VBA is what that means) is to have the user mark up a document with bookmarks – a set of bookmarks that leads you along. The bookmarks are to be named in a very specific format. The tool will force the user to use the “select first” type bookmark<\/a>. You can toggle the viewing<\/a> of bookmarks as well.<\/p>\n

How to Create Add-Ins Using VSTO in MS-Word – this gets one started.<\/span><\/a>It is VS2010 and I am using VS 2013 – but it gives a really good view of adding a ribbon item, using forms and making it all work. Ok – I tried it – this is like trying to kill a mosquito with a elephant gun – but that is what corporate wants. Every time you click “run” it starts a new version of Word. This means that you have to load the document of interest every time. In VBA – you “run” from the context you are already in <- RIGHT THERE IS THE CRUX of my axe griding as well as VBA on the fly debugging on ANYONE”S MACHINE. Alas…<\/p>\n

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