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Just issue the following PowerShell one-liner, and you'll compile and run each sample in the SDK (enter all in one line; broken here for readability):

If you're getting this error while trying to connect to Access 2007 or Excel 2007 via the Office 12 OleDB provider, you must first make sure you have the Office 2007 data providers installed.

If you need to detect whether a given application is installed (i.e. you're writing a plugin, or depend on an existing framework/toolkit to be installed), you have a couple options:

Just get the Stylish add-on browse the huge library of community contributed styles to a myriad of sites. My customized Gmail hosted now looks much better (especially on my new small 12.1'' laptop :))

I heard these guys have great plans on how to secure the universe...

Pablo wrote a very cool article on the CoDe magazine which should be very useful to most people developing VS packages. With extensive screenshots and wizards, it should make your VS extensibility life MUCH easier.

I have already hinted at this in a previous post, but this time it's a bit different. Sometimes it's useful to switch to a full System.Type when you're doing code-generation or general CodeModel navigation within VS in an addin or VSSDK package.