Archive for December, 2009
The CLR Add-in team came up with a very useful tool to save the coding effort and complexity associated with add-in development. The tool is available in CodePlex. I installed the pipeline builder add-in to Visual Studio 2008 and it works great! Matt Hidinger in his blog describes the steps to use pipeline builder with a sample. The [...]
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Tags: AddIn Development, CLR AddIn, Managed Addin Framework, Pipeline Builder
Imagine your team’s primary skillset is on .NET development. You get requirements for a website and your customer wants to stick with low cost linux/apache hosting solutions. What will you choose when you weigh the options? – (a) Hiring new talent (b) Training the resources on technologies such as J2EE. While such a decision is dependent on different factors it is important to know that there is [...]
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Tags: Asp.NET on Linux, Mono, Mono Framework
Managed AddIn Framework (MAF)
This week, I have started exploring the add-in programming model for plug-in development. Developers can use it to develop add-ins and activate them in their host application. The model is based on construction of a communication pipeline between the host and the add-in. Managed Add-in Framework The assemblies for these segments are not required to be in the same application domain. [...]
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Tags: MAF, Managed Addin Framework
It is quite likely that many of you get requirements to extend the MS Office applications’ capabilities based on your business needs. Well, we are talking about the .NET development and the framework provides you capabilities for developing Office based solutions using Visual Studio Tools for Office. This portal (Office Development with Visual Studio) provides many resources related to [...]
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Tags: .NET Framework, Add-in Development, Development for Microsoft Office using .NET framework
