April 2008 - Melody's VSTA Blog

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Controlling Configurations

It is possible control the configurations of a VSTA project both by editing the proj file in the template and programatically. By default, ProjectGen creates templates with two configuration settings: Release and Debug. The user may choose to change the...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 3:07 PM by Melody
VSTA and LINQ to XML with Excel

VSTA 2 can be used to extend a host application to use LINQ in a variety of ways. One example of this is to use LINQ to XML to use an XML file as input. LINQ to XML is doubly convenient because Office products, such as Excel 2007, work well with XML files...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 5:00 PM by Melody

Filed under: vsta, add-in, Excel, Office, XML, LINQ to XML, LINQ
Error "xxx.rem has been disconnected or does not exist at the server"

When an add-in does not communicate with the host for 5 minutes or longer, then attempts to communicate again the error "xxx.rem has been disconnected or does not exist at the server" occurs. This happens both during debugging and at run time and is due...

Published Wed, Apr 02 2008 10:00 AM by Melody

Filed under: vsta, add-in, remoting