July 2006 - Gary Depue's VSTA Blog

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MSDN Article: Using Strong Name Signatures

This is an informative MSDN article for those who wish to learn about digitally signing .Net assemblies: Using Strong Name Signatures

Published Mon, Jul 31 2006 3:03 PM by Gary

Filed under: digital signatures, strong-named assemblies, delay sign, strong names
VSTA’s proxied types provide version independence, process isolation, and security

You may be asking, "Is this proxy layer stuff really necessary? Why do I have to generate proxy types for all my Object Model objects?" And, "I noticed that System Types like string do not seem to require proxy types, they just work, why...

Published Mon, Jul 31 2006 1:03 PM by Gary

Filed under: proxy, security, isolation, transitive closure, versioning, type-safe communication
Finding and Using VSTA in InfoPath 2007

Yesterday, I put together an InfoPath 2007-based demo of VSTA to demo on a laptop. The laptop already had the VS2005 SDK installed and VSTA (msiexec /i vsta_aide.msi VSTAINVS=1) Installing VSTA from the VS2005 SDK enables the laptop to run the ShapeApp...

Published Wed, Jul 26 2006 2:45 PM by Gary

Filed under: InfoPath, Setup, assembly versions, install
VSTA in InfoPath

Microsoft has announced that VSTA will be included in InfoPath. Here's how to download a copy of InfoPath and take a look at how Microsoft will be using VSTA to offer extensibility to InfoPath users.

Published Thu, Jul 13 2006 10:04 AM by Gary