| I’ll be presenting at the Jacksonville Code Camp in Jacksonville, FL (August 29th, 2009) Andrew Connell07/02/2009
I mentioned there was an open call for speakers the other day… looks like my session was picked! Hope to see you there! High Performance Solutions on SharePoint Server 2007Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when... |
| Why NOW is the Best Time to Get Started Developing SharePoint Designer Workflows Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 07/02/2009
Regardless of the size of your organization, you are certainly looking for ways to save money in these difficult and uncertain economic times. That’s one of the reasons SharePoint has remained extremely popular during our present economic... |
| Dealing with the “ambiguous outer joins” message Erik Rucker07/02/2009
Today’s guest blogger is Colin Wilcox, writer for Access Training on Office Online. When you query multiple tables for data, you sometimes see a message about “ambiguous outer joins.” The message tells you to create a separate query that performs... |
| More Web Stats Madness Jon Peltier07/02/2009
Yesterday we were treated to discussions about the visitor stats of several Excel bloggers:
Chandoo: June was Pointy Haired Dilbert Blog’s Best month ever
J-Walk’s Spreadsheet Page Blog: June Visitor Stats
Daily Dose of... |
| Ribbon screen stealer Simon Murhpy07/02/2009
We all know the ribbon is just a fat clumsy toolbar. And if you followed the big marketing push to try and convince us it is not big you’ll know that it is apparently 140 pixels deep.
Heres the odd thing though – the smaller... |
| New (Beta) Patterns & Practices from Microsoft released Sven Cipido07/01/2009
Microsoft just released their latest addition to the P&P library. This time
it's a guidance about Acceptance test (Vol 1).
The book was previously already
announced in beta 1, now it's the Beta 2... |
| SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery Jan Tielens07/01/2009
Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you’re typing a query in the search box, asynchronously the query is already... |
| June Stats Dick Kusleika07/01/2009
The Spreadsheet Page
Pointy Haired Dilbert
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| Optimizing life – Life in Async Shahar Prish07/01/2009
I was going to get coffee today at work, minding my own business, when someone from the test-team asked me if the order I was doing things when preparing coffee was intentional. Absentmindedly, I explained the reasoning behind the order of things... |
| Silverlight Polling Duplex Channel is NOT a Scalable Solution Kevin Hoffman07/01/2009
I've been seeing a lot of people hyping how awesome the Silverlight Polling Duplex Channel is and I just want to put a word of caution out there for developers of large-scale apps |
| Programmatically Create an InfoPath form with ASP.NET Mauro Cardarelli07/01/2009
I worked on a project a while back where I needed to develop a .NET based web application that collected data and submitted the results as an InfoPath form in a SharePoint form library. It had some very cool features (like binding... |
| How to Upload Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications Erika Ehrli06/30/2009
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Some time ago I blogged about How to: Uploading a File to a SharePoint Library Site from a Local Folder and How to: Magic with SharePoint 2003, uploading files using a Web service. Some people found... |
| Embedding an Open XML File in another Open XML File Brian Jones06/30/2009
A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation on the Open XML SDK to a few customers, where I was asked questions on how to embed files within Open XML documents. I thought it would be a good opportunity to devote a couple of posts around this topic.... |
| New Change to the Excel blog David Gainer06/30/2009
I’d like to take this opportunity to announce a new feature of the blog, which some of you might have noticed already. Our Content Publishing team has begun collecting “Power Tips” from members of the Excel community, including the product team,... |
| Searching for Security Gaps Gord Schmidt06/30/2009
When I am confronted with the security setup for a new customer it is relatively easy to go through the definitions of the Groups and Categories. What is more difficult, is finding the users that have permissions or categories assigned directly to... |
| Kudos to the Exchange Documentation team Chris Meirick06/29/2009
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Exchange documentation, you may appreciate the quality of coverage and organization. Or you may not. But if you really want to appreciate what the Exchange team has done over the last... |
| Kapow Technologies Chris Webb06/29/2009
In all of the Gemini demos seen so far, a big thing is made of the fact that it can be used to integrate data from outside sources (eg some stuff you found on the web) with internal data (eg data from your data warehouse). This is all very well, but... |
| Office 2003 to 2007 UI Guides Reminder & “If All Goes Wrong” by the Smashing Pumpkins John Durant06/29/2009
So, I just bought 5 copies of Office 2007 for a friend of mine in the good land of Minnesota. He’s upgrading all of his home computers and those for his kids scattered about the country. One of the first things he’ll notice is the new Office Fluent... |
| WG4/WG5 Meetings Doug Mahugh06/29/2009
I’ve just returned last night from a week in Copenhagen, where I attended the SC34 WG4/WG5 meetings that were hosted by Danish Standards. As usual, it was several days of non-stop document format discussions, in the meetings as well as ov... |
| Copying a chart from a spreadsheet to a presentation Wouter van Vugt06/27/2009
Body: Needing to copy a chart from a spreadsheet into a presentation is probably a common scenario for many of us. Luckily the Open XML SDK makes this remarkably easy. Let me show you how.
Note: For this code to work you need the Open XML Format... |
| New Behavior in Timesheets with Project Server 2007 SP2: Timesheet Pre-population Goodness Brian Kennemer06/25/2009
Brian Smith writes here about a new behavior added in SP2 around timesheet pre-population and some reports of some customer dissatisfaction. The ‘Gist’ is that with SP2 if you have the ‘Current task assignments’ option in the Default Timesheet... |
| Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks (Beth Massi) VSTO 206/25/2009
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (MVP) up on the VSTO Dev Center. In this article, learn how you can use Visual Studio to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office tasks. It’s a good... |
| Service Pack 2 Update. SharePoint Team06/25/2009
The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it... |
| Hotfix available for SharePoint SP2 activation issue. Philip Wheat06/25/2009
You may remember the high priority post back in May (Important information on SharePoint Server 2007 based products and SP2) about an issue with the state of activation after SP2 is installed on SharePoint Server and associated servers. ... |
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| jQuery and jCarousel in SharePoint Alonso Robles06/24/2009
I recently had to integrate jCarousel into a SharePoint web part. Since jCarousel is a plugin for jQuery, it means I also had to get jQuery integrated with SharePoint. In order to accomplish this, I followed some good feature packaging instructions... |
| SharePoint Best Practices Conference Speaking Bill English06/23/2009
I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference on these topics:
The Discipline of SuperCharged Findability: Understanding why Findability should be an Organizing Principle in your SharePoint Deployment - Part I
Audience: System... |
| Joel Oleson (SharePoint Guru) coming to Australia William Cornwill06/22/2009
Joel Oleson (ex SharePoint product team) is coming to Australia in July. He has organised two morning sessions with local SharePoint experts, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. I will be sitting in on Joel’s session i... |
| SharePoint Saturday Toronto - Registration is Now OPEN! SharePoint Buzz06/19/2009
If you are not familiar with SharePoint Saturday events, they are free community-focused SharePoint events dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical community.
The first ever SharePoint Saturday Toronto event is being... |
| SharePoint, Features and web.config modifications using SPWebConfigModification Serge van den Oever06/18/2009
SharePoint has a great way for deploying content and functionality using Windows SharePoint Services Solution Packages (WSP's). While developing a powerful new feature for SharePoint Publishing sites I had to deploy a HttpModule "the... |
| TIFF fax images, picture libraries, incorrect thumbnail generation, and SharePoint Bil Simser06/18/2009
A welcomed feature of SharePoint is the picture library. This is similar to a document library but rather than storing documents, you can store pictures. You can store pictures in a document library too, you just don't get as rich a UX from it as... |
| Follow-up on today's MCT Summit presentation ... OOXML resources Stephanie Krieger06/18/2009
Hi, everyone! Thanks to all of the MCTs who took the time to attend today's session! For those who wanted to but couldn't make it, the recording of the session will be made available wth your other summit resources.
Among those resources, as you... |
| How to access SharePoint List data with Visual Studio 2010 and WPF Paul Stubbs06/17/2009
Steve Fox walks you through the process of building a WPF application using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to access SharePoint 2007 List data. Using the newest version of Visual Studio, C#, Linq, XML, and SharePoint web services to pull a List from the... |
| Bing Maps with Silverlight Mark Harrison06/09/2009
http://bingmapsupdates.cloudapp.net/ Bing Maps with Silverlight ... on the Azure platform .With the launch of Bing the new decision engine from Microsoft, we've taken this opportunity to join up our mapping brands, and Microsoft Virtual Earth has... |
| Speaking at Dallas SharePoint Developer Group Ty Anderson06/09/2009
I will be taking my international road show just down the street to speak at this month’s Dallas SharePoint Developer Group meeting.
I’ll be covering How To Integrate Sharepoint With Office And Line-Of-Business Applications.
What I plan to do... |
| Microsoft releases Sliverlight Application to explain STSADM commands Mohamed Zaki06/09/2009
really neat :)
From Microsoft sharepoint team blog
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The vision was to plan, design, develop, test and publish a high quality SilverLight application that would improve the overall customer experience with the current downloadable... |
| Getting an iPhone 3G or USB powered iPod to charge in your car Omar Shahine06/05/2009
If
you car has an integrated iPod kit, chances are when Apple
removed the ability for Firewire to charge through the iPod adapter, your iPhone
3G and iPod don’t charge any longer.
In the past few months a few options have emerged that... |
| Implement the Ribbon UI in Windows Forms Dennis Wallentin06/04/2009
Some of us Excel developers like the Ribbon UI while others find it more difficult to work with it. No matter what we developers think about it exist a growing number of clients requiring that the Ribbon UI to be implemented in .NET based Excel... |
| SDN Event June 26th Mart Muller06/02/2009
Some interesting sessions coming up at the Software
Development Network Event (SDN)! Bob Fox, Spence Harbar and Robin Meuré will fill
the IW tracks:
SharePoint Mythbusters: Debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions -
Spencer... |
| What would this be, a bleet? KC Lemson 05/28/2009
I apparently haven't had anything to say that's longer than 140 characters lately. Sorry :-) |
| My session for the May Winnipeg SharePoint User Group meeting Eric Legault 05/25/2009
Join us for the next session of the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group where I will give a guided tour of SharePoint and the Office System. Focus will be on some of the powerful and overlooked features throughout the suite, as well as demonstrating some... |
| Important info about SharePoint 2007 SP2 dwinter05/21/2009
If you haven't already seen this yet--please read this announcement from Jeff Teper, Corp VP of SharePoint: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx |
| Important info about SharePoint 2007 SP2 Dan Winter05/21/2009
If you haven't already seen this yet--please read this announcement from Jeff Teper, Corp VP of SharePoint: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx |
| Excel Services Getting Started – Pt4 Web Service APIs Andrew Whitechapel05/20/2009
This continues my previous checklists here, here and here on getting started with Excel Services. In this post, I’ll append a walkthrough for using the Excel Web Services APIs.
6. Using Excel Web Services... |
| Silverlight Frankenstein Rod Paddock05/19/2009
For the last 6 months I have been working on a massive call center application that uses JavaScript heavily to provide a rich client experience. While working on this application a feature request was made that threw me for a loop. The requirement w... |
| 8. VSTO Bug Tracker : Using a Ribbon Eric Carter05/14/2009
To get started, from the Project menu choose Add New Item. In the Add New Item dialog box, click Ribbon (Visual Designer). Then click the Add button. A new Ribbon is created and the Ribbon Designer is displayed. Next, click on the Group control... |
| The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) Maarten van Stam04/29/2009
Just while I'm in Redmond to discuss the next version of Office, Office 2010, the second service pack for Office 2007 came available for download.
So if you think you found some bugs in Office 2007 SP1 or earlier, install Service Pack 2 to check... |
| 64-bit "Print to OneNote" solution now available Chris Pratley04/23/2009
Good old David Rasmussen who is Group Program Manager of OneNote has built (in his "spare" time) a way to send printouts to OneNote 2007 directly on 64-bit Vista and Win7. It's a little clunkier than the built-in 32-bit only solution that comes with... |
| This blog is moving Mike Walsh04/15/2009
The time has come to thank Bil Simser (a LOT!) for his hospitality over the past couple of years in first offering to host my blog using his server and also to let me hang around for so long.
The new blog is being hosted by the Mindsharp Blogs... |
| slooF lirpA Web Part Todd Bleeker04/01/2009
One of my favorite SharePoint April Fools gags is to alter the direction that HTML is displayed on a popular SharePoint page. I've encapsulated that code into a simple Content Editor Web Part I've called slooF lirpA (April Fools... |
| Blog Moving - http://www.sharepointbloggers.com Mark Kruger03/30/2009
Moving my blog due to downtime..... http://www.sharepointbloggers.com
Thanks! |
| Faking the Initialized Event in Silverlight Bryant Likes03/24/2009
This is another nugget of gold gleaned from the Climbing Mt Avalon workshop, although I believe this one came from Jonathan Russ. He was talking about a bunch of threading tricks in WPF and showed how if you wanted to run some code after everything... |
| My Blog has Moved Mike Walker03/20/2009
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I just moved my blog to www.MikeTheArchitect.com . The RSS should still be the same so if you have linked to my blog through the blogs.msdn.com/MikeWalker address you will need to update your ... |
| A New Vision of Productivity Gus Collazo03/11/2009
Just found this very nice online presentation by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft's Business Division. He lays out his vision of how Microsoft can help increase productivity in our daily lives. In this economy, companies that step forward and... |
| Microsoft BI Strategy Update Ian Tien02/24/2009
From Nic Smith on the Microsoft BI team: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-bi-strategy-update.aspx Hi everyone, I wanted to provide an important update on the Microsoft BI strategy! For over ten years we’ve been on a mission to... |
| Microsoft Enterprise Search Roadmap with FAST John Roe02/10/2009
Today at the Fast forward conference Microsoft announced their product roadmap for enterprise search. It includes two new products to be released with the Office 14 wave. The first is FAST search for SharePoint which is basically FAST ESP 5.3x tuned... |
| Saving Your Settings Avner Kashtan02/10/2009
Tomorrow I am bidding my laptop farewell, and will soon buy me a new one. This results in what I like to call Settings Anxiety. I spend months tuning various aspects of my computer to my liking, and starting afresh with a new machine is wearisome.... |
| Dallas Cowboy letter proved fake by calibri OfficeRocker02/05/2009
Check out the story here about a Lucille Hester who was accused of fraud after reading out her half brother’s supposed posthumous letter. The letter said to be written by football star and former olympic sprinter, Bob Hayes, was read out... |
| Download: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map Andrew May (Microsoft)02/04/2009
For the last several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with using mind maps, both as a way of brainstorming about developer content, and as a possible way of presenting content in a less-structured way than a typical (linear) table of contents. In... |
| New book on SharePoint content types InfoPath Team Blog02/02/2009
Have you ever wanted to do more with content types in SharePoint, but weren't quite sure how? There's a new book by David Gerhardt and Kevin Martin which goes deep on the subject, including a chapter on creating Document... |
| SharePoint Logging and Microsoft’s Trace Log Provider Mike Toole01/26/2009
Ever wonder how to add entries to the Portal Log? Well, you can do this the easy way by using Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString but there always seems to be those cases where you want more flexibility than just adding... |
| Intro to Performance Point Server... speakTECH-BI01/19/2009
Hey everyone, if you haven't had a chance to play with Performance Point Server yet, you really should give it a try. Here are a couple of videos to help introduce you to this technology. The first is a walkthrough the product by one of the product... |
| Taking a risk Mark Bower01/02/2009
For around the last year I have been really annoyed with myself for not living up to my full potential. Know the feeling? Perhaps the worst part about achieving some level of success in your chosen career, is that once you have something to lose you... |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| InfoPath Server Form Invocation - part 1 Don Reamey08/04/2008
There are always questions on how does my form know 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| The Story of the Ribbon Jensen Harris03/12/2008
I was reading through commentary from people who attended last week's MIX conference in Las Vegas. Running across Miguel de Icaza's kind words reminded me that I hadn't posted a follow-up about my MIX talk yet.
Last week, I presented a session at... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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.... |