| Our New Free SharePoint Training Video Series Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine Could not parse date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:10:00 PST
SharePoint Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the first two videos of a new free SharePoint training video series: SharePoint 101 – What Makes SharePoint Work. The free video series is the latest addition to our free SharePoint... |
| The Great Microsoft Office Portal Dennis Wallentin02/04/2012
As most of us already know, Microsoft has for the last couple of years built up an enourmus giant knowledge base about Microsoft Office on the internet. As a consequence it has also become more difficult to navigate around and find the wanted... |
| Tell Tale Signs Dick Kusleika02/03/2012
There are a few programs whose output I can identify immediately. One is Quickbooks. When I get an invoice or a quote from someone using Quickbooks, I know it right away. Today, I was admitted to the Omaha West Rotary, officially making me a... |
| Open Group Conference PresentationWhy EAs Must Drive Cloud Strategy and Planning Mike Walker02/02/2012
First and foremost, a big thank you to the attendees of my session. We filled the room! All the interaction and questions were top notch. I really enjoyed presenting to all of you. In my session, Why EA's Must Drive... |
| I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 Andrew Connell02/02/2012
I’m very much looking forward to this show every year. I’ve got a handful of sessions I’m co-presenting with other folks as the show is doing something a bit different. I’ll be in the Developer track and as it states on the site: This track is for... |
| Tired of “Punxsutawney Phil” Stories Bill English02/02/2012
Am I the only person in these United States of America that is tired of hearing how the groundhog didn't see his shadow and we have six more weeks of winter?... |
| Chart Busters: What Planned Parenthood Actually Does Jon Peltier02/02/2012
According to Do You Know What Planned Parenthood Actually Does?, “the Susan G. Komen Foundation has announced they will stop funding Planned Parenthood for breast cancer exams and other breast-health services.” MoveOn.Org... |
| SharePoint 15: What is coming? Serge van den Oever02/01/2012
Something everyone busy with SharePoint would like to know: what will be the new features of SharePoint? What has been changed in the existing functionality? A lot of information that will point us in the right direction is available now from the... |
| Excel: The Basics (Video) David Gainer02/01/2012
For those of us who crunch words instead of numbers, Excel can be intimidating. We don't know the difference between a workbook and a worksheet, and for sure don't know to ask about conditional formatting (a cool way to visually display data). Then... |
| The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources Bil Simser01/29/2012
Windows Phone apps are growing in popularity as does the 50,000 60,000 apps in the marketplace today. Microsoft has done a great job at putting together some resources for developers including full documentation. When you first land on App Hub... |
| Excel developer conference thanks Simon Murphy01/29/2012
Thanks to everyone who came to the event last week. And thanks to everyone that helped out, and a special big thanks to our magnificent presenters. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and found something useful. The on the ball presenters have... |
| How to save your Access SharePoint password Erik Rucker01/26/2012
Recently, someone posted a comment on IT Impact Inc.'s blog asking how to get SharePoint to remember his password when he logged in via Access. He wanted to avoid having to log in every time. Ben Clothier, a Senior Access Developer at IT Impact,... |
| XL Dev Con – Wrapping up Ross McLean01/25/2012
Well that’s end of a great day of Excel goodness, all that’s left now is a quick trip down the pub, and for Roger to convice me that Named ranges are as good as he thinks they are!!! Bring on the beer!!! |
| WordCamp Victoria 2012 Doug Mahugh01/16/2012
Over the weekend, I attended my first WordPress event: WordCamp Victoria 2012. It was a great opportunity to learn more about WordPress and meet a bunch of people who are passionate about WordPress, blogging, travel, food, beer, sailing and other... |
| NoSQL, Big Data, Polyglot Persistence… A New Era Alonso Robles01/10/2012
I have recently stumbled on a couple posts from Martin Fowler related to a NoSQL Distilled joint book authoring effort. The book announcement excites me as I am looking forward to reading it for a several reasons. Primarily because I have been like... |
| URL Shortening For SharePoint 2010 Jan Tielens12/12/2011
I’m pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents (or list items) can become pretty long if the... |
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| What’s New in SharePoint Online: November 2011 Update SharePoint Team11/29/2011
Body: Our first update to SharePoint Online (SPO) since the launch of Office 365 (O365) became generally available on June 28, 2011 is now complete worldwide. We thought it would be a good time to share information about the new features and fixes... |
| Bon anniversaire! Stephanie Krieger11/21/2011
No matter how neglected this blog becomes, I can't miss the birthday of its namesake...
Bon anniversaire Monsieur de Voltaire!
Today marks the 317th anniversary of Mr. Arouet's birth ...
(and for those who might have hoped this post was... |
| Moq, Callbacks and Out parameters: a particularly tricky edge case Avner Kashtan10/06/2011
In my current project we’re using Moq as our mocking framework for unit testing. It’s a very nice package – very simple, very intuitive for someone who has his wrapped around basic mocking concepts, but tonight I ran into an annoying limitation... |
| OneNote Web App gains Ink display Chris Pratley09/30/2011
In case you missed it, the always updating Web Apps (available at http://office.live.com and embedded all over the web) got a refresh yesterday. You can read about it more here: Announcing new features you've requested.
One of the big ones for me... |
| Getting back to blogging ….. Rohit Puri09/24/2011
Looking forward to the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA (October 3-6) Video - TechEd 2010 - What's new in Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 |
| Skimboarding fun at Seabright Beach Don Campbell09/24/2011
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We... |
| SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training live on TechNet! Erika Ehrli09/02/2011
We’ve released a few popular training sets on MSDN and TechNet including: Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Advanced Developer Training SharePoint Enterprise Search Developer Training SharePoint Enterprise Content... |
| Point8020’s ShowMe Mark Harrison08/30/2011
<p>Point8020’s ShowMe for SharePoint helps end users get the most out of SharePoint 2010 by delivering <br />on-demand video training and context-sensitive help. With over 100 “how-to... |
| VSTO Developer Center is now part of the Office Developer Center VSTO 208/02/2011
In order to provide a more integrated experience for folks building custom solutions on the Office platform, we’ve merged the content from the VSTO Developer Center into the Office Developer Center. You’ll still find great learning content there... |
| SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course Paul Stubbs07/25/2011
Today I am pleased to announce a new Training Course on MSDN for building Windows Phone 7 apps for SharePoint 2010. What started off as a simple blog post has grown into a full 2 day training course on MSDN. The course contains 10 training units and... |
| Todd’s Speaking Schedule at SPTechCon Boston Todd Bleeker06/01/2011
Wednesday, June 1 8:30-5:00: SharePoint 101 The Developer (W-2 in Back Bay A) This session is a day-long overview of development on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Increasingly, organizations are developing SharePoint based solutions. This workshop ... |
| Get Started Developing for SharePoint Online & Office 365 Ty Anderson05/27/2011
My company has been a subscriber of Microsoft’s current Office cloud offering (BPOS) for a over a year. It’s great in a lot of ways: It’s easy to administer It bundles Exchange, SharePoint, & Live Meeting It includes a nice single sign-on... |
| SP1 Fix Affecting 64 bit Solutions in Access Frice05/23/2011
We are on-track to deliver SP1 in mid-summer 2011 (here is the official announcement). We definitely recommend this update for all Office 2010 users. If you’re one of the few 64-bit Access users working with compiled Access databases... |
| Advanced cache invalidation using HTTP Wouter van Vugt05/04/2011
Body: One common approach to enabling high performance web applications is to cache data that does not change frequently. SharePoint is no different in this and provides a host of caching options including blob caching, list item caching, object... |
| Working with VSTO 2008 Projects in InfoPath 2010 InfoPath Team Blog04/14/2011
The InfoPath team is busy working on the next version of Office. While we’re offline, we’d like to take the opportunity to tackle some of the questions that we get asked frequently by InfoPath... |
| Strange Outlook Express Message to free updisk space Sven Cipido04/07/2011
Since yesterday I got a strange Outlook Express message.
"To free up disk space outlook express can compact messages"
I call it strange as I don't have OE installed, because I'm using Outlook.
So looking around in my system to see if... |
| Windows Azure Platform at Mix11 James Conard03/18/2011
On April 12th – 14th Microsoft will hold the annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. The Mix conference is just that – a mix of topics ranging from design to development and from HTML5 to the cloud, with a few Phone and MVC sessions thrown... |
| Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services John Peltonen03/05/2011
Thanks to everyone who attended my SharePoint Saturday presentation on building solutions with BCS entities. You guys all rocked! I loved the questions and discussion that we were able to have.
As promised, I've uploaded my ppt deck complete with... |
| How to treat spaces/single quotes in Sheet names in REST Shahar Prish10/05/2010
When using REST to access portions of a workbook, people sometimes use direct addressing (Sheet1!A1). I thought I’d drop a line about the icky way this works when you have single quotes in your sheet name. Reminder… First – a short reminder. This is... |
| Another Approach to Risk Matrix Calculation Gord Schmidt09/30/2010
I just read Alexander Burton's post on EPMSource.com entitled Encoding a Risk Matrix in Project Server. I saw where he was going with it, but I thought there might be an easier formula to produce the same output.
My thought was to use numbers and... |
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| The Innovation Decision John Durant08/11/2010
For over a decade I have enjoyed so very much being a leading voice for custom solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office. The last 7 ½ years of that time have been as a Microsoft employee gleefully carrying my blue-badge with me all... |
| Writing Large Excel Files with the Open XML SDK Brian Jones06/22/2010
In my last post, I showed you guys how to use the Open XML SDK to read and parse large Excel files. Today, I am going to show you how to write large Excel files with the Open XML SDK. Like in the case of reading, the Open XML SDK provides two... |
| VSTO performance tips Misha Shneerson06/03/2010
If you are writing a VSTO customization - make sure you aware of this performance tip courtesy of Steve Peters - developer on the VSTO team.
This tip allows to prevent VSTO runtime from reflecting on your entry point assembly. We see considerable... |
| Office 2010 Released to Manufacturing! Ryan Gregg04/19/2010
On Friday we signed off on all of the Office 2010 products, including Outlook 2010 and have released them to manufacturing! A journey we started 3.5 years ago is complete! Outlook 2010 is the best version of Outlook ever, including a number of great... |
| 2009 SharePoint Toolbox Review dwinter12/21/2009
SharePoint Administration Toolkit (version 3.0 and version 4.0):
We released the fully supported toolkit twice this year. The 3.0 release contained the first version of the SPDiag tool.
We published a How-To... |
| 2009 SharePoint Toolbox Review Dan Winter12/21/2009
SharePoint Administration Toolkit (version 3.0 and version 4.0):
We released the fully supported toolkit twice this year. The 3.0 release contained the first version of the SPDiag tool.
We published a How-To... |
| Exchange Server Forums Chris Meirick12/04/2009
There are many blogs, tutorials, and information sites available for Microsoft Exchange information. Where do you go if you have a non-urgent question regarding Exchange configuration, features, third-party applications or general Exchange and... |
| VB Code Samples for the VSTO for Office 2007 Book Now Available Eric Carter11/18/2009
I wanted to make sure everyone knows that VB code samples for the VSTO for Office 2007 book are now available.
You can download them... |
| SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation Now Live on MSDN! Andrew May (Microsoft)10/19/2009
(Cross-posted from the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team blog.)
By now you’ve probably been hearing some of the big news coming out of the SharePoint Developer Conference being held this week in Las Vegas. Doubtlessly, there’ll be... |
| TFS 2008 export to Project 2010 beta1 Andrew Ma09/21/2009
Last week, I was fighting with TFS 2008 export to Project for a while and was unable to find a resolution anywhere. Turns our that I had MS Project 2010 beta1 installed and upon switching to Project 2007, it started working again. Hope this might be... |
| Time to Jump Ship Andrew Whitechapel08/30/2009
I've been working in the Office Development space for over 10 years now, and I finally decided it's time for a change. So, I'm leaving my current team and heading over to a new job in Xbox. I expect that will change the nature of my blog posts - the... |
| Office 2010: New Product, New Blog Jensen Harris07/17/2009
Since we signed off on Office 2007 in October 2006, we've been hard at work on the next version, Office 2010. As successful has Office 2007 has been, it represented but a first step in our journey towards rethinking the user experience of Office.... |
| Publisher 2010 Tech Beta - read more on the Publisher Team Blog Jeff Bell07/13/2009
The Publisher Team Blog is now the place to go for the product team's thoughts on Publisher, both released versions and public betas. I've just put up a post there on the Publisher 2010 Technical Beta that is now available to invited beta... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 Fitzmaurice05/22/2008
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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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) |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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.... |