| Oracle OLAP support for MDX Chris Webb11/21/2008
Is that a pig I see flying past? It seems that the folks at Simba have come up with an OLEDB for OLAP provider for Oracle's OLAP option, so you'll be able to query Oracle OLAP direct from Excel 2007. More details... |
| The strange story of the missing search entries. (WSS 3.0 + MSSX) Mike Walsh11/21/2008
When I wrote my book I did it using Windows Server 2003 R2 and in order. In other
words anyone following it chapter by chapter would see what the screen shots show.
No more, no less.
Now I'm using a WSS 3.0+SP1 installation (the... |
| Spreadsheet modes Simon Murhpy11/21/2008
That was an interesting debate about using formatting info in functions we had the other day. Clearly both sides have valid views and to a large extent it comes down to what you are doing.
Building a complex mission critical system that has to... |
| Microsoft Certification Master for SharePoint - My Involvement in Helping Create the Certification Content and Some Thoughts... Andrew Connell11/20/2008
Microsoft announced at TechEd EMEA 2008 two new certifications for SharePoint professionals. Both are additions to existing certification programs: the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Programs. These build on... |
| Add-ins in Excel 2007 Dick Kusleika11/20/2008
Recently, someone asked me if there was a better way to manage add-ins in Excel 2007. Specifically, he wants something better than Office Menu - Excel Options - Addins - (wait) - Go. Here's a recent edition to my Personal.xls
Sub... |
| Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 Mark Harrison11/20/2008
Reza Chitsaz, Senior Program Manager for Office and Sharepoint tooling, gives a quick sneak-peak on some of the tools coming in Visual Studio 2010 around supporting Sharepoint as a platform.Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010Mark Harrison |
| How to Use SharePoint Discussion Boards in Outlook 2007 Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 11/20/2008
As you can imagine, we are heavy SharePoint users here at SharePoint Solutions. Much of the work we all do every day is done with SharePoint. Unlike our instructors, consultants, and developers, everyone isn't a SharePoint expert. Just like in your... |
| Updated webcast links Stephanie Krieger11/20/2008
Hi, everyone! Thanks to those of you who alerted me recently that some of the links on my webcasts page were broken - I've now fixed all broken links and updated the page to include some recent webcasts (including a couple for Office 2008 for Mac).... |
| New Site aggregates SharePoint Developer Topics… Ty Anderson11/20/2008
Microsoft has a new site that helps you get started using SharePoint in your development efforts. The site aggregates virtual labs, webcasts, white papers, tutorials and other related content. Instead of searching everywhere for good code to steal,... |
| BlackBerry Storm.. Misses the Mark? Chris Meirick11/20/2008
As William mentioned last week, the new BlackBerry Storm is hitting the shelves roundabout now. Engadget has just published its' review.. the summary... "The selling points are easy: the phone is gorgeous to look at and hold, it's designed and... |
| ISO/IEC publishes the Office Open XML specification Brian Jones11/20/2008
There was some great news yesterday for those of you waiting to see what the final version of the Open XML specification would look like after the BRM resolutions were applied. ISO/IEC 29500 is now published in its final form:... |
| Getting started with the Live Framework (Screencast) Angus Logan11/20/2008
There are a few things you need to do to get started with the Live Framework. setup a demo LIve ID (recommended not to use your real Live ID because its a CTP and you may run demos or share your code. This is only necessary if you run demos) ... |
| Implementing IMessageFilter in an Office add-in Andrew Whitechapel11/19/2008
First a warning: this is an advanced scenario, and you should not attempt to use this technique unless you’re sure you know what you’re doing. The reason for this warning is that while the technique described here is pretty simple, it’s also easy to... |
| How to make better software for users? Here's to so-called "soft" skills and fewer jerks. KC Lemson 11/19/2008
I had a discussion with someone today who said something like "It's amazing how much of the process of software development isn't about software, it's just about communication and cross-group collaboration". My response was that "Actually... |
| Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery [Part One] Jan Tielens11/19/2008
In the first part of this article I'll talk about how you can enable the jQuery JavaScript library in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages. The second part of this article will focus on using jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages. When I was at... |
| Publication of ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML) Doug Mahugh11/19/2008
It's official: ISO announced today the publication of the final text of ISO/IEC 29500, the Office Open XML specification. This includes all of the changes agreed to at the BRM, including the strict-vs-transitional structure and many others from the... |
| How do you display a lopsided distribution? Jon Peltier11/19/2008
Kaiser wrote about a chart in The Economist in Dealing with skew. Kaiser’s discussion centered around how unclear the Economist’s chart was in even describing what it was showing. Even the title of thee chart, “Income... |
| Microsoft SharePoint Online Now LIVE! SharePoint Buzz11/18/2008
If you have not heard, Microsoft SharePoint Online is now LIVE! It has come out of beta and you have your SharePoint environment hosted and managed by Microsoft!
Starting from $15 per user per month, this can be a cost effective solution for many... |
| Starting SharePoint designer workflows and "Access Denied" John Roe11/18/2008
I recently created a sharepoint designer workflow and only site collection administrators could start it. Other users, even those that had full control on a site could not start it and would get an "access denied" message if they tried. To fix it I... |
| 7 new translations for Team System Web Access Sven Cipido11/18/2008
A few months ago several MVP's joined together in a new community project on Codeplex.
This project is called TSWA Community Translation
Project.
The purpose of this project is to give the community some additional... |
| Announcing - the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group! Eric Legault 11/17/2008
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/default.aspx
Sponsored By:Zoom OfficeCollaborative InnovationsMicrosoft
The first Winnipeg SharePoint User Group event will be happening this month! D'Arcy Lussier, Gérald Danais, Juan Larios,... |
| Access Podcasts Erik Rucker11/17/2008
Ric Lewis one of the Access Program Managers sent this my way and I thought I would share it. Our User Assistance folks have created some great podcasts for Access. Like all podcasts, you can subscribe via RSS and watch on your mobile device. Check ... |
| Build Generic Team from Enterprise Gord Schmidt11/15/2008
In some organizations the project managers do not build the team on their schedules, instead leaving this function to resource managers or the PMO.
Recently, I came across an implementation where the enterprise project templates were populated... |
| How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services SharePoint Team11/14/2008
Overview Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. ThreeWill recently worked with Microsoft to build a generic Service Request... |
| Windows Live People and the past 12 months Omar Shahine11/13/2008
Last night we
announced the world what my organization has been working on for the past year.
It’s really exciting to see all the press in the past 24 hours.
So now that we’ve announced to the world here is what I’ve been working on (with... |
| SPDisposeCheck Mohamed Zaki11/13/2008
Sharepoint developers always advised to dispose SPWeb and SPSite object as their unmanaged memory footprint really large and without dispose it will cause performance issues, however till now it's the developer responsibility to check the proper... |
| Top Ten Reasons SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server 2008 Go Great Together!!! Gus Collazo11/12/2008
If you're a SharePoint administrator, you might be asking yourself if there is any reason to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to 2008. Actually, there 10+ great reasons to rush out and do this today! Check out this blog post by Joel Oleson. There are... |
| I found my new cheese dwinter11/11/2008
Of course that is referring to Who moved my cheese?, but the reality behind the analogy is still the same. I no longer am working in Product Support (CSS) as a Senior EE. I am now working as a PM (Program... |
| I found my new cheese Dan Winter11/11/2008
Of course that is referring to Who moved my cheese?, but the reality behind the analogy is still the same. I no longer am working in Product Support (CSS) as a Senior EE. I am now working as a PM (Program... |
| Live Mesh Tutorial 2 - Working with Feeds and Entries Kevin Hoffman11/11/2008
In this tutorial, I walk you though the process of upgrading your Silverlight Live Mesh application to be able to store and retrieve data using DataFeeds and DataEntries |
| Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Mart Muller11/11/2008
Seems like Visual
Studio 2010 will have improved SharePoint integration.
Paul
Andrew summarized it from the TechEd Barcelona keynote yesterday:
Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint... |
| Transforming Tree Surgeon using the Adaptive Console Framework Bil Simser11/07/2008
I'm a command line app junkie as I love working with it. I guess it's my DOS/Linux roots but I find things go faster when you're not dealing with a GUI and a mouse. Command line tools like NAnt and MSBuild have all sorts of options... |
| Using PivotTables to Analyze Data From a SharePoint List David Gainer11/06/2008
Today's author, Diego Oppenheimer, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about connecting PivotTables to data stored in SharePoint Lists.
Many of us on the Excel team have been approached by customers asking us how to create a... |
| John Doerr gives advice on Economy and advice on first Federal CTO Mike Walker11/06/2008
John Doerr at Web 2.0 Summit - (Credit: CNET Networks / Josh Lowensohn) For those who are concerned about what the economic crisis means to you, then these interview with John Doerr will be very interesting to you. He provides great advice for star... |
| SQL Compact privately installed and VSTO Maarten van Stam11/04/2008
I just created (well been messing around for a week now with various parts of that installer) an installer for a VSTO project privately installing the compact dlls. Everything fine until I deploy to this clean machine and the customized... |
| Type Equivalence and Type Safety Misha Shneerson11/03/2008
What one should do on a plane back from the PDC? Of course! Write a new blog post! So, since I still have some topics to cover on the whole NOPIA shabang - here we go. CLR’s 4.0 support for Type Equivalence allows you to define your own copy of an... |
| Webinar: Automating Document-Centric Processes within SharePoint Mauro Cardarelli10/31/2008
I am working with the folks at eCopy on an upcoming webinar entitled "Automating Document-Centric Processes within SharePoint". Details on the session are below. You can register for it here.
General Event... |
| Notes from PDC Session: Extending SharePoint Online Serge van den Oever10/27/2008
******* REMOVED SOME HARSH WORDS ON THE SESSION *******
I took some notes, and augmented it with some of my own thoughts and information.
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SharePoint Online provides:Managed Services on the net- No server deployment needed, just a few... |
| Application Shutdown Changes in Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 Beta Ryan Gregg10/27/2008
As part of the performance improvements we’ve made for Outlook 2007 SP2 beta, we’ve changed the way Outlook manages the lifecycle of the application. In the past, Outlook followed the best practices for Component Object Model (COM) servers and... |
| Where in the world is Mark and is he still working on SharePoint? Mark Kruger10/23/2008
Well, I write that title as I am sitting on a plane heading back home to FL. Sorry for the lack of recent posts. It is not because I am not knee-deep in SharePoint. My current client engagement keeps me quite busy as my... |
| The PeopleEditor Class and the Visibility Attribute Alonso Robles10/22/2008
When doing custom development for MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0, the PeopleEditor class can come in handy. However, it seems that it begins misbehaving when the the Visibility attribute is changed from its default value of true. Recently, I had the need to... |
| From Search to XNA Andrew Ma10/17/2008
One of the great things about working for Microsoft is the variety of things that someone can work on. Back in November 2004, I made a switch from one team to another within Microsoft. This past month, I made another change back to an area which got... |
| What's New in Office for October? Erika Ehrli10/16/2008
Time's been passing. Meanwhile, we have a slug (bucketful? melange) of interesting new content out there.
For Office client developers, we have a couple of important updates. One is to Andrew Whitechapel's popular article:... |
| Version2003 Version2007? Eric Carter10/16/2008
Saw a weird bug in VSTO this weekend as I was setting up a new home machine (Quad core—woohoo!). After I installed VSTO, I got this in the new projects dialog:
Version2003 and Version2007 were displayed rather than 2003 and 2007.
Turns... |
| About Excel Services UDFs and localization Wouter van Vugt10/16/2008
Body: During my SharePoint course that I did last week we had trouble with Excel Services and UDFs. A User Defined Function is basically a .NET method that can be called during calculation of a worksheet. To call your UDF, you need to go to Excel... |
| Silverlight 2 Now Available William Cornwill10/14/2008
At the recent TechEd in Sydney Craig Harrowfield and I gave a presentation on enhancing the user interface (UI) and experience (UX) of SharePoint by using Microsoft’s Silverlight 2.0 technology. During the demonstration we focussed on Sil... |
| Project Server Technical Library in a Single File Brian Kennemer10/14/2008
I know what you are saying “No way, how could they do it?” But it is all right there. It slices, it dices it makes thousands of julienne fries. But it also lets you have every technical document on Project Server 2007 in one place that you can... |
| MS Business Intelligence Conference Day 1 Greg Dolder10/07/2008
So I'm up in Seattle, attending the 2nd Annual MS BI conference, and day 1 did not disappoint. Like a great number of attendees, I come to these events with a "show me something new" attitude. That desire was satisfied in... |
| Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms Services environments InfoPath Team Blog10/03/2008
A new document went live today on Technet around capacity planning for IPFS. Have a look and let us know what you think:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879113.aspx
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| AddInSpy - The missing diagnostic tool! Dennis Wallentin10/01/2008
I thought that I should flag for the new diagnostic tool, AddInSpy, from MSFT. I have only started out to test it but I already like what I see. It can be a valuable source to detect present status for individual COM add-ins of all kind, i.e.... |
| Inline Script inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel - Infinities Loop Mike Toole09/23/2008
I am building some web parts that include some AJAX functionality and found out that any inline scripts I was outputting in my updatepanel were not being executed. The blog post below offers a great explanation on this... basically, use... |
| SQL Server Data Services - Sample Code! by Gus Collazo speakTECH-BI09/13/2008
For those of you who read my earlier post (SQL Server Data Services, Part Uno!) and have signed up for the beta program (SSDS Beta Signup), here are a few pointers to sample code you can use to try out SQL Server Data Services (SSDS).
First, check... |
| Sahlgrenska 3 September 2008 Patrick Tisseghem09/08/2008
Body:
Patrick Tisseghem, the beloved husband of Linda Godau and the loving father of their daughters Anahi and Laura, was born in Halle, Belgium on 17 October 1968 and passed away in Goteborg, Sweden on 3 September 2008. Patrick we... |
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| SharePoint Enterprise Search: The Faceted Search 2.5 BETA Scott Jamison08/12/2008
As I've mentioned in earlier posts, I've found that one of the most compelling
features in an enterprise search solution is faceted search, which enables users to
refine a large number of results quickly by... |
| InfoPath Server Form Invocation - part 1 Don Reamey08/04/2008
There are always questions on how does my form no where to open, in the browser or in the rich client?
The simple answer is to set the document library settings to open in the preferred environment. This can be either the InfoPath rich client or... |
| My Last Post Kevin Boske07/17/2008
Friends, this is my last post. I've enjoyed being a part of the Office developer community for the past 4 years and meeting everyone over the past 10 years from the Microsoft side of the fence. My next part of the journey... |
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| You can’t please all the people all of the time Mark Bower07/09/2008
Or maybe you can if you want to be bland, boring and unremarkable. Seth Godin has been rallying for some time against focus groups and design by committee. Today he has this gem: If you are willing to satisfy people with good enough, you can m... |
| The difference between Vista and Office OfficeRocker07/09/2008
One of the challenges in retail is when customers buy a PC with Windows on it and think they also have Microsoft Office. They get home all excited to write their first letter on Word and find to their dismay that it isn't installed.&#... |
| Dopust Peter Jausovec06/30/2008
Koncno dopust! V sredo letim iz Seattla za Frankfurt in nato do Zagreba (business class :)). Nekaj dni bom doma, pol pa naslednji teden spet na letalo in v Dubrovnik na "pravi" morski dopust.
Sem ze zacel pocasi pakirat, pospravljat, pripravljat.... |
| The New World Dick Moffat06/21/2008
I ran into an old client today at the grocery store (sounds like a song by Dan Fogelberg ?).
He works in IT for the Hospital Authority in our city. Years ago I used Access to do some conversions for them from an old HR system... |
| Podcasting Kit for SharePoint John Peltonen06/09/2008
Today, at 6am Eastern time, Microsoft announced the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. We're particularly excited about this, as we've spent the last few months building it!
PKS is freely available on codeplex. It allows you to use MOSS as a... |
| "OWS_" Property Mapping Tip Bill English06/02/2008
http://admincompanion.mindsharp.com/BillBlog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=80
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| Transitioning to Office Labs Chris Pratley05/31/2008
It's been about a month since we went live with officelabs.com. Of course as a team we’ve been operating a little over a year, but only now do I get to talk about that period. I thought I might fill you all in on my transition from OneNote to Office... |
| Thank you for all of the comments and suggestions Melissa Macbeth05/31/2008
Dear readers,
Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any new posts to this blog in the near future. To see more about what is going on now in Outlook, I highly recommend the Outlook Team... |
| Upgrading all projects to .NET 3.5 Avner Kashtan05/25/2008
A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't checked). Works fine for regular C# projects, as well... |
| Tips on Excel Services article published on MSDN Shahar Prish05/23/2008
This article contains some basic troubleshooting/tips on using Excel Services. |
| I'm Back -- Just In Time To Move On... Mike Fitzmaurice05/21/2008
The good news is that I'm going to be blogging again. The not-exactly-bad news is that I'll be blogging over at http://mikefizmaurce.wordpress.com. Actually, that's good news. I'll be blogging elsewhere... |
| Unlearn Rod Paddock05/09/2008
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
Yoda to Luke Skywalker Empire Strikes Back 1981
I have become convinced that we are entering a new dawn of software development and we must take time to unlearn that which we know. Over the last 2 months I... |
| Experiments in Productivity: Office Labs Jensen Harris04/28/2008
This morning, we publicly revealed the existence of Microsoft Office Labs and made a few of their experiments available for download.
Office Labs is a small offshoot of the main Office product team dedicated to producing experiments and... |
| Send Groove Bugs and Feedback Directly to the Product Team Paul Stubbs03/23/2008
Download a free trial You can now submit your bugs or feedback directly to the Groove product team. The Groove team has set up a new Microsoft Connect site to allow you to submit and track your bugs. These bugs go directly into the... |
| Office: Put Your Document Name on the Title Bar or the Clipboard The Office Letter03/02/2008
We explain two macros that help you extract and use the full path and file name of your current document. |
| Kerberos & Sharepoint Bruce Sandeman02/28/2008
Some useful links that help guide a configuration of SharePoint when using Kerberos... How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM... |
| Release of Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office Case Studies John Durant02/27/2008
What are customers doing with VSTO and Microsoft technologies generally? We have recently published case studies that show how and what companies are doing with our tools Below are two prominent studies with the list of products and technologies use... |
| ODC rocked the house! Joanna Bichsel02/15/2008
The Office Developer Conference finished on Wednesday and it was unbelievable! Jay Paulus, Director of the Office Platform Strategy team kicked it off to a great start.
Following that, Bill Gates talked saying: "Making Office into a... |
| DinnerNow 2.5 for .NET 3.5 RTM now released Jamescon02/14/2008
On late Friday afternoon David and I posted a new build of the DinnerNow sample application on CodePlex. The new version (2.5) is compatible for the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. David... |
| Cleaning things up Omar202/11/2008
So the site in final beta form was released yesterday. The last build attacked various small issues and also allowed us to clean up some of the code and implement some things in a better fashion.
Blog AggregatorFor example, we... |
| Best places to get XPS Info Andy Simonds12/12/2007
Since I moved over to the Office team this blog (primarily focused on XPS) is not very active. If you are looking for the latest info on XPS, here are some helpful links: XPS implementation information at http://www.microsoft.com/xps XPS in Vista at... |
| SharePoint SDKs (and Other Documentation Resources) Now Updated for SP1 Andrew May (Microsoft)12/11/2007
(Cross-posted from the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog.)
By now you’ve no doubt heard that SP1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Designer are now available. (And if you haven’t... |
| Excel's Worksheets and Sheets Collection - What's the Difference? Frice12/05/2007
Among the top four objects most searched for on the Microsoft Developer Network by Excel programmers are the Sheets collection and the Worksheets collection (the other two are the Range object and the Application object). As an aside, I've... |
| speakTECH acquires the OfficeZealot.com site Steve Hansen10/16/2007
Office is so much more than the client tools that many of us started with and while we have done our best to keep up with the demands, OZ really needs some new blood and additional muscle to grow its feature set and deploy some much needed updates.... |
| Aberdeen Report: Companies See Increased Productivity Through the Convergence of Enterprise Applications and Desktop Tools Michael Kiselman10/15/2007
In case you have missed this aricle on MoneyCentral:
"The integration of desktop tools with enterprise applications is a two-way street that brings personal productivity, which in turn translates to improved corporate productivity. Aberdeen, a... |
| Excel Services Calculation Issue Update & Fix! Luis Bitencourt-Emilio10/10/2007
Please check out David's post for links to the fixes. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/10/09/calculation-issue-update-fix-available.aspx...(read more) |
| Purple Cafe Julie Kremer09/07/2007
John Peltonen was right.
I was wrong.
However, we both agree that Andrew Whitechapel sucks for standing us up. |
| Uploading and Downloading documents from a Office Live Business Application using DAV/FPRPC Rohit Puri08/21/2007
It’s somewhat difficult to work with Front Page RPCs. We’ve heard this from folks, and I recently solved it for myself in a client app that uploads and downloads files from document libraries sitting in a custom business application in... |
| Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 Second Edition) Now Available! Mike Hernandez07/19/2007
Windows Vista vastly improves overall quality, security, and reliability as compared to previous versions of Windows. Though there are tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backward compatibility, some system enhancements, such as User... |
| Onward and Upward Don Campbell07/06/2007
This is my last post on my Microsoft blog. I've had a great 4.5 years here at Microsoft. Met some amazing people, and played with some cool technology. Now I'm moving on to do my own thing. I'll be blogging a... |
| "I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through" Todd Bleeker06/13/2007
Hello, yeah, it's been a whileNot much, how 'bout youI'm not sure why I [blogged]I guess I really just wanted to talk to youAnd I was thinking maybe later onWe could get together for a whileIt's been such a long timeAnd I... |
| New official Outlook Team Blog is up! Michael Affronti06/13/2007
Hey hey - we've pooled our resources on the Outlook team and created a single Outlook Team Blog. We'll be having folks from the whole team posting and discussing tips, tricks, and resources about Outlook. Check it... |
| IW Executive Prodcast - Bill Gates, Chairman - Microsoft Shawn Murray05/28/2007
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to Redmond for a customer briefing. While I was out there, I got the rare opportunity to interview Bill Gates, company co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft. As you might imagine, his time is... |
| It depends on what the definition of "this" is Robert Green05/18/2007
I was perusing the VSTO MSDN forum a couple days ago and I saw Add a command button to the send email screen. This person (Bear23 to be exact) wanted to add a button to an Outlook 2003 Inspector. Well, not only do I know how to do this, but I have... |
| Office Zealot is giving away an Acer Ferrari Laptop! Ryan Bedell04/12/2007
We want to thank all the Office Zealot readers for their support over the years!
We are giving away an Acer Ferrari laptop loaded with Windows Vista. We recently had a chance to review this laptop and now that we are done, it is... |
| SharePoint topics at Chicago User Groups Paul Schaeflein04/11/2007
Todd Bleeker (who is alleged to be a cult figure in some circles) is speaking at two local events: Building SharePoint Web Parts Wednesday, April 18thChicago DotNet User Group (RSVP requested)Microsoft Office in Downers Grove, IL Ghosting, Master... |
| Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 released Oleg Tkachenko03/26/2007
I was cleaning up my backyard and found this control I never finished. So I did. Here is Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 just in case somebody needs it. It's is ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control, which allows to display arbitrary Microsoft... |
| My first only WSS3 blog Sharepoint info03/24/2007
How to put Sharepoint slides into Sharepoint, you'll need office 2007 but, <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/21/publishing-sharing-and-searching-powerpoint-files-in-sharepoint.aspx">here's... |
| The Five Ways of Learning Melanie Spiller02/10/2007
Have you ever felt that other people seemed to be collecting more information than you, and learning it faster and retaining it longer? Or maybe that you were the only one following along, and everyone else seemed to be scratching their heads? Or... |
| Do You Share Diagrams On A Server? Eric Rockey01/26/2007
Do you ever put Visio diagrams on a SharePoint site, Web site, or file server so you can easily share them with others? Are you making use of Visio 2007’s Data Link and Data Graphics features? If so, the Visio Product Planning department would like... |
| SQL Server 2005 Bulk Insert using Windows Authentication ... George Wesolowski12/04/2006
Here's the scenario that tripped us up during our SQL Server 2005 upgrade:
Consider a stored procedure that executes a BULK INSERT command where the file in
the FROM clause is located on a remote machine. When... |
| Sites and Site Collections Andrew May (Fujitsu Services)12/02/2006
Without me realising it Amanda Murphy's blog somehow dropped off my blogroll (possibly when she moved to feedburner) which is a shame because it means that I missed her article on the differences in the way site collections are handled... |
| Rebuilding Perfmon counters on XP Vijay Desai 10/20/2006
Perfmon is an extremely handy utility to track application performance. When tracing the performance of .NET applications(VSTO/IBF) on the Office platform, I find the counter counter "# of Stubs" provided by the performance object ".NET CLR... |
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| New icons of Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 TR Alexander Gorlach09/18/2006
New icons of Microsoft Office seems very good, but still not in the vector format:
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| Microsoft PDF and XPS Add-ins and the 2007 Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh Jeff Bell09/14/2006
It has been great to see the web buzz over the past few days over the availability on the Microsoft Download Center of the Microsoft Add-ins for Office 2007 for Save as PDF and Save as XPS. The better news comes today that you can now actually use... |
| What's the story with WINS? David Lemson09/07/2006
Recently, someone asked the following question on an internal Microsoft distribution list:
Can someone please outline the ways in which Exchange 2003 is dependant upon WINS..?
Here's the answer I wrote back:
Exchange 2003 is dependent upon three... |
| Windows Live WiFi Laura J08/25/2006
While I've been away from this blog, I've been working with the MSN Access team. We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a stealth project that we're now ready to Beta -- Windows Live WiFi.... |