| AppleInsider reveals details of my WWDC Presentation Kevin Hoffman08/21/2008
Yesterday I noticed that AppleInsider.com had revealed the NDA-bound contents of my WWDC presentation. I discuss that in this blog post |
| Installing an Add-In in Excel 2007 Jon Peltier08/20/2008
In Installing an Excel Add-In I described the protocol for installing an add-in in Excel. The protocol I described was valid for Excel 97 through 2003, but the change in user interface which came with Excel 2007 was accompanied by a more tortuous... |
| Looking for SQL Server Upgrade information William Cornwill08/20/2008
Now that MOSS is officially supported on SQL Server 2008, you might be looking for information on how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008. Below are some useful links that may assist; Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 ... |
| Architect Role Taxonomy Mike Walker08/20/2008
Paul Priess wrote an interesting post called The foundation skill set for architects. He also wrote for the Microsoft Architecture Journal 15 - The Role of an Architect. In this post, he provides a link to the IASA recently published Architect Tax... |
| New Access 2007 Technical Article Erik Rucker08/20/2008
Aleksandar Jakšić, who is one of the testers on our team, has written an article that shows you how you can use the Access Database Engine from native applications written in C/C++. The article shows you how to to the Access Database... |
| Post-Holiday Roundup Chris Webb08/20/2008
Ahh, so I'm back from my holiday and feeling much better -even if it did manage to rain every single day while I was away (that's the risk you take with holidays in England). Now all I have to do is get through the massive pile of emails waiting for... |
| DIWUG LinkedIn Group Mart Muller08/20/2008
The Dutch Information Worker User Group
(DIWUG) has it's own LinkedIn group.
If you are a member or want to become a member, please join the group and expand your
network!
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=689637
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| Updated Sliverlight blueprints for sharepoint Mohamed Zaki08/20/2008
Microsoft has updated the sliverlight blueprints for sharepoint and you can get the updated release from codeplex
Quoted from Sharepoint team blog
"In this release, there are five blueprint samples:
Hello World
Media Player... |
| Updated Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint (with support for Silverlight 2 Beta 2) released to CodePlex! SharePoint Team08/20/2008
I'm very excited to announce that we have just released the an updated version of the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint that supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2! These blueprints were designed to provide developers with a better understanding of how... |
| Activating a Custom Tab on the Ribbon When a Document Is Opened Andrew Whitechapel08/19/2008
Harry 'Play It Again Sam' Miller has posted a wonderfully funny video on this topic - with a serious message. You've got to check this one out:... |
| Hard times Simon Murhpy08/19/2008
I know we are in a recession but this still seems a bit tight:
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My West Yorkshire based client immediately requires an Access and Excel... |
| Fun video interview from TechEd US – Carl Franklin, Angus Logan, Dr Neil, Mark Brown Angus Logan08/18/2008
This interview may end some careers but that’s not stopping me from sharing it (Stream High | Stream Low | WMV Lo | WMV Hi | MP4 | MP3)
Here are some of the things we talked about
ASP.NET tools for Windows Live
Virtual Earth: 3D and... |
| ALT.NET Canada - Day 3 - The Sharing Circle Bil Simser08/18/2008
ALT.NET Canada wrapped up in the grand ballroom at the University Sunday afternoon. It was a great end to an awesome weekend. As with Open Spaces Technology there's a closing, and Doc introduced the Sharing Circle to everyone (some of Open Spaces... |
| Counting Olympic Medals Dick Kusleika08/17/2008
I saw this article in the LA Times about measuring Olympic Medals per capita. I like the idea, but I also think figuring in the GDP of the country makes sense. The US could throw a lot of money at an individual event and probably fair pretty... |
| Jacksonville Code Camp - Saturday, August 23, 2008 Andrew Connell08/17/2008
We're right around the corner from the next Jacksonville, FL Code Camp. It's next Saturday, August 23, 2008. If you're going, make sure you register & check out all the great sessions & speakers @ http://www.jaxcodecamp.com. I'll be... |
| Two-Factor Authentication for the rest of us Omar Shahine08/17/2008
I’ve
always been skeptical of the usability of two-factor authentication. Specifically,
Microsoft employs a form of Two-Factor authentication using a Smart
Card. To get access to our corporate resources from outside our network you... |
| Office Open XML (OOXML) is now officially an ISO standard. Maarten van Stam08/16/2008
The ISO organization announced in its press release that despite of appeals OOXML now is an official standard.
Press release:http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1151
Quote:The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given... |
| Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK for August 2008 Chris Meirick08/16/2008
Microsoft has released an update to the Exchange Server 2007 Software Development Kit. The Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK for August 2008 includes documentation and code samples for developing Exchange applications. William Lefkovics |
| SQL Server 2008... free shot at certification! by Gus Collazo speakTECH-BI08/15/2008
Hi everyone, with SQL Server 2008's launch just around the corner, Microsoft has announced 2 new certification exams:Beta Exam 71-452: Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008Beta Exam 71-450: PRO: Microsoft... |
| Reading Excel Files from Linux David Gainer08/14/2008
Today's author, Chris Rae, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about using Perl code to read Excel's new file format.
The OOXML Format
As most readers will know, we spent a lot of time during the development of Office 2007 in... |
| Handling RFC 822 Date/Time in VB.NET Eric Legault 08/14/2008
I've been working on a project that involved retrieving an RFC 822 Date/Time value in a string. I needed to correctly convert that to a Date value, so I thought that would be very painless and off I went:
returnedDateString =... |
| Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 / .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 download Mark Harrison08/13/2008
The update for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 in a single install.Combined Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1The update for just the .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, it does not include... |
| Insulted by a compiler? Wouter van Vugt08/13/2008
Body: While reviewing some code in .NET Reflector I found the following:
goto Label_00CD;
OCD? What the heck? Not only saying OCD, but making fun of me by writing it with not just one O, but two! And they are not even formatted correctly, being... |
| 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... |
| New Course on Business Data Catalog and Enterprise Application Integration Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 08/12/2008
We have a new course in development that is scheduled to launch to the public on September 30.The course, Objective: Integration - Using MOSS and the Business Data Catalog (BDC) for Enterprise Application Integration, is targeted at MOSS Solution... |
| Installing a Language Pack for MOSS Mauro Cardarelli08/12/2008
The multi-lingual capabilities in MOSS are very cool. You can create sites in non-English languages simply by installing the appropriate language pack. This is especially slick when you are using variations (will cover this in... |
| Links for 08-09-2008 Doug Mahugh08/09/2008
Interoperability Study. Jay Kesan and Rajiv Shah of the University of Illinois have published a study on interoperability between various implementations of ODF and Open XML, respectively. I first saw it mentioned on Jesper's blog, and here's a link... |
| WSS FAQ additions and corrections CXVI - 3rd - 9th August 2008 Mike Walsh08/08/2008
Special Note: The next post will be on the 31st of August.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles
below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I... |
| Exchange team, innovating in content delivery yet again KC Lemson 08/08/2008
It wasn't enough to be the first product team at microsoft to start a team blog, oh no no... We didn't stop there. We recently branched out into song.
:-)
[Update 8/11: Todd Bishop blogged about this on his Seattle PI Microsoft blog... |
| Post to self: getting the directory where the CLR is installed in PowerShell Serge van den Oever08/08/2008
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeEnvironment]::GetRuntimeDirectory() will return a path like: c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ |
| Alert: Major Internet Security Flaw Mark Kruger08/06/2008
All of us in the SharePoint community need to get the word out on this one: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/08/internet-securi.html
"Acclaimed Internet security researcher Dan Kaminsky detailed a flaw in the current... |
| 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... |
| EPMU Developer Course Offering Brian Kennemer07/31/2008
http://www.msepmu.com/developer.htm 4 Day course with hands on labs and solid coverage of developing around Project Server |
| The Mysteries of Search Crawlers and Finding Stuff on the Intranet Erika Ehrli07/31/2008
As the managing editor for the Office Developer Center, I spend a lot of time trying to determine effective search optimization strategies to help our content get discovered by search crawlers or robots. My focus is generally on the big... |
| VS 2008, COM Add-ins and launch conditions Dennis Wallentin07/31/2008
I can create COM add-ins based on the Shared Add-in template in VS 2008 and they all work well on my developing computer. However, I got an issue when I tried to deploy them on configurations where only .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.
In the New... |
| New InfoPath articles on Office Online InfoPath Team Blog07/30/2008
The following new article and video demos are now available on the InfoPath Home Page on Microsoft Office Online:
Get started: Create a meeting note system with InfoPath and SharePoint-shows you how to use a sample form template... |
| Reminder: Free SharePoint Resources - July SharePoint Buzz Giveaway SharePoint Buzz07/30/2008
UPDATE: The giveaway has been extended til I come back from my vacation.
Quick Post - one more day remaining before I announce the winners for the Free SharePoint Resources - July SharePoint Buzz Giveaway. Wnat to win? Just comment and have a... |
| Follow-up ... Word legal day Stephanie Krieger07/28/2008
This past Thursday, I had the opportunity to be one of the presenters (along with Sherry Kappel, Stacy Gittleman, and representatives from several law firms) at an all-day NY Word Legal Users Group event that was hosted at the NYC Microsoft office.... |
| Dynamically Creating a VSTO Worksheet in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Eric Carter07/28/2008
One additional problem commonly encountered in the VSTO document programming model is how to attach code and data bindings to dynamically created worksheet objects. The new GetVstoObject feature described in the previous blog post can also be used... |
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| Patching Presentation video is now available for download dwinter07/27/2008
We got the video of my patching presentation posted from the SharePoint 2008 conference. There truely is a lot of great information here, and this download will be referenced from many Microsoft locations as a must see when it... |
| Patching Presentation video is now available for download Dan Winter07/27/2008
We got the video of my patching presentation posted from the SharePoint 2008 conference. There truely is a lot of great information here, and this download will be referenced from many Microsoft locations as a must see when it... |
| New CAML Builder Feature Version Released Patrick Tisseghem07/26/2008
Body: I am pretty excited about this new version of the CAML Builder Karine created and released yesterday. There are many enhancements that you are probably going to like. You can read all about these in her latest blog posting. I definitely like... |
| Hiding MOSS functionality in the master page or a page layout Mike Toole07/22/2008
Recently I was asked how we could show and hide things based on user permission, without writing a custom MOSS feature with c# code. There are a couple ways to do this and rather than me spending type typing up a how to or show examples,... |
| Open WorkItems in Excel from Team Explorer 2008 : bug Sven Cipido07/22/2008
If you have installed Team explorer 2005 and afterwards installed Team Explorer 2008,
there's a bug when opening Work items in Excel. You got following error
TF80070 Team Foundation encountered an error while performing... |
| 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... |
| Best Practices Conference John Roe07/11/2008
For all those interested in SharePoint best practices, there is a conference Sept. 15-17 devoted to it. Looks like they'll have some good sessions. More info can be found here: https://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/
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| Font Smoothing for Windows Server 2003 RDP Bryant Likes07/09/2008
A few days ago Peter Provost blogged about Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme. I decided to try it out (again) since I felt like I needed a little change in my coding environment. For my current project we are using Windows Server... |
| 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.... |
| Looking for some good reading on Open XML? Brian Jones06/30/2008
Wow, can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy getting back into the Office 14 project, the recently released Open XML APIs, as well as the Office 2007 SP work (where we'll be introducing the ODF support). I... |
| 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... |
| Adding Copy and Paste to SharePoint with the SmartTools Jan Tielens06/14/2008
I've just uploaded a new extensions to the SmartTools for SharePoint project on CodePlex. This extension adds Copy and Paste functionality to SharePoint Document Libraries. You can download the extension from the Releases section. For more info and... |
| 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... |
| Targeting multiple versions of Office without PIAs Misha Shneerson06/03/2008
Having to rely on the correct version of PIAs to be deployed for implementing Office add-ins has become the inevitable reality for many Office devs. This reality is quite gruesome, I must add.
Andrew Whitechapel describes a technique... |
| "OWS_" Property Mapping Tip Bill English06/02/2008
http://admincompanion.mindsharp.com/BillBlog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=80
Bill EnglishMindsharp |
| 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... |
| Resolving circular references in MS Project Gord Schmidt05/01/2008
A customer presented me with a project plan with thousands of tasks. Somewhere within that large list of tasks lurked one or more circular relationships and the error message did not help. The task to which the error message was pointing was not,... |
| 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... |
| Looking to Learn about Office Development & VSTO? Ty Anderson04/18/2008
Download these files and give them a listen…also, while you are at it, open up the VBA help files for the Office app you plan to target for a solution and learn the object model.
And one more thing….it doesn’t hurt to... |
| Update Your Blog Readers, We've Moved! VSTO 204/03/2008
The Visual Studio Tools for Office team has moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto , and the RSS feed is http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.xml. We've got a lot more team members set up to blog over there so come on over and join us!
Important... |
| 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... |
| Using WPF in Outlook Folder Home Pages Ryan Gregg01/14/2008
One common question developers have asked is how they can extend the view area of Outlook to display additional information related to the contents of a folder. Our solution to this problem is to use a Folder Home Page along with the... |
| 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) |
| Windows Live Search - Products Andrew Ma10/02/2007
It's been 6 months from the last time I posted about Product Searching in Windows Live Search. Our team is still well and kicking. To prove it, today you can go to our newly revamped site (http://search.live.com/). In the past, you would have to... |
| 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.... |