Mar 09, 2010 by dschneid
Summit Software is pleased to announce that Corel is now shipping VSTA in CorelDraw X5. CorelDraw is a versatile graphic design software that provides it all - vector illustration, page layout, photo editing, tracing, Web graphics and animation - in one...
Jan 06, 2010 by Gary
With 64-bit Windows, vsta registry entries must be changed from 32-bit registry: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\ TO 64-bit registry: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\ I've attached SetupShapeAppMacroRecordingCSharp64.js to demonstrate these changes. Since setup scripts...
Aug 13, 2009 by BillL
My integration journey has come to an end. For my last post, I am going to write about a new way of loading VSTA AddIns: MEF. I have talked about MEF some in my previous posts , and have successfully used both VSTA and MEF together before. This time,...
Aug 10, 2009 by BillL
This is one of my last posts in this series. If you have not yet read my previous posts, here are the links to them: Chapter One , Chapter Two , Chapter Three , Chapter Four . (I would especially read Chapter Three, as that is where I introduce MEF, and...
Jul 31, 2009 by dschneid
Summit Software Company is pleased to announce that David Schneid has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer. This decision was approved by the Board of Directors of Summit Software Company. David replaces Bill Fisher, a founder of Summit, who has accepted...
Jul 31, 2009 by BillL
Q : The VSTA IDE keeps hanging up while debugging when I try to step into code. Why is it doing this? A : The IDE may be hanging because you have left PDB files in your application directory. Even if you are running the Release version, make sure that...
Jul 28, 2009 by BillL
My integration journey is taking some exciting turns. As always, I would encourage you to read the first three posts in this series ( Chapter One , Chapter Two , and Chapter Three ) before reading this one. I have finally integrated the VSTA IDE into...
Jul 08, 2009 by BillL
Q : I have a problem with loading VB add-ins. The method call: ObjectModel::Collection<AddInToken^>^ addInToken = AddInStore::FindAddIn(IEntryPoint::typeid, AddInStoreExtensions::DefaultPipelinePath, FilePath, TypeName); returns an empty collection...
Jul 06, 2009 by BillL
In this sample, Melody modified the proxy to include an entry point for the CDocDrawing class (the CDocDrawing class was also modified to include events which become disassociated with ProxyGen- see this blog for related info on this bug ) and the HostItemProvider...
Jul 02, 2009 by BillL
For chapter three, I will be introducing a framework from Microsoft called the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF ( MEF on CodePlex , MEF on MSDN ). If you are not familiar with MEF, you will certainly get more out of this post if you read the MEF...