More of a general question, but as a developer that's new to VSTO what's the best way to tie controls within the document with those within the Actions Pane. For example, I have a button in the Actions Pane, how could I, say, click this button and then that button triggers a connect to a db and data in the db populating a list control within the document?

Thx,

Stephen

This is a very newbie question ;) - There are two many answers to this but basically you havent stated which version of VSTO you are using and type of document or application addin, in short you can do very different things for each type of VSTO template/addin project.

Can you please explain what versions and type of documents/application addins you are trying to create.

Regards

Yes, I shamely admit I'm a complete VSTO newbie :-)

I'm using VS Pro Ed 2005/VSTO 2005. I'm trying to create a Word add-in, where I have a list control of budgetary elements in the Actions Pane (which loads from a db). I want to have the ability to click and add an element in the control in the Actions Pane to a data grid in the document, where I would execute some calculations on the elements within the data grid and provide an automated statement with the calculated items at the end of the doc.

Any general guidance here is appreciated.

Stephen