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Charting House

Dick Kusleika03/16/2010
I was watching a DVR’d episode of House recently and I became aware that the amount of show between commercials was changing as the show went on. The commercials were getting closer together. Then at the end, a long run of show between...

Where Does SharePoint Still Fall Short?

Mauro Cardarelli03/16/2010
I was interviewed by a collection of SharePoint enthusiasts last week and was asked a number of very interesting question about the current and next releases of SharePoint.  The one I found most intriguing was “With all the great things in...

Open XML SDK 2.0 RTM is live! Find Articles, Videos, Code Samples, and Resources on MSDN

Erika Ehrli03/15/2010
I’ve been incredibly passionate about Open XML since it’s early beginnings. I remember back in the day I was very excited about the possibility of generating .NET server-side Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. I also had the opportunity to...

Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Is Live

John Durant03/15/2010
I speak with customers every day about the productivity solutions they build using Microsoft Office. Rarely now do my conversations not include a discussion of Open XML. This is because it is such a powerful way to work with Office documents as a...

Build an Excel Add-In 6 – Interface for 2003

Jon Peltier03/15/2010
This is the sixth of nine installments in the Build an Excel Add-In series. In previous installments, we wrote some code to perform a useful task, enhanced its functionality to make it more broadly applicable, modularized the code and included an...

IE8 rocks for consuming & creating Facebook content

Angus Logan03/14/2010
The IE team just announced a few little extensions for IE that make it a great browser for creating & consuming Facebook content. Web Slice – get it Search Provider – get it Accelerator for sharing – get it

BI.Quality

Chris Webb03/13/2010
Here’s something interesting that I’ve just seen on Hilmar Buchta’s blog: a new, open source testing suite for the Microsoft BI stack (including SSAS) called BI.Quality. It’s available for download from Codeplex here:http://biquality.codeplex.com/...

Give us feedback – How can we help you work faster and more efficient?

Erik Rucker03/12/2010
Today’s guest writer is Neha Monga, Program Manager on the Access team. She works on compatibility checker, the runtime, Access developer extensions, and the future of the Access user experience. I’m starting to think about ways to improve the...

Announcing the Release of the Open XML SDK 2.0

Brian Jones03/12/2010
Today, I am really excited to announce the worldwide availability of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office! The Open XML SDK plays an integral part in creating Office document solutions that work on the client or server. The Open XML SDK allows...

Show and Hide Context Menu Items in Outlook 2010 (Norm Estabrook)

VSTO 203/12/2010
If you have written code that shows and hides context menu items in Outlook 2007, that code might not behave well in Outlook 2010. That is exactly what happened to this individual who recently posted to the VSTO forum. The command bar object model...

Analysts’ review of SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Team03/12/2010
As we announced last week, SharePoint Server 2010 will RTM next month. We’ve been keeping you updated on the documentation and guidance that we’re providing but the technology analyst community has also been very busy talking to their clients about...

SharePoint MVP Experts Chat - March 15, 2010

SharePoint Buzz03/11/2010
Do you have tough technical questions about SharePoint? Are you ready for some answers? Well we can help. Ask the talented and very knowledgable Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals.  SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical...

Check out the new article from Excel MVP Ron de Bruin

Frice03/11/2010
The article titled Using VBA in Excel to Send Workbooks and Ranges through E-Mail with Outlook (Part 1 of 2) has been publish. In this, the first of a two-part series, Ron describes ways of sending Excel workbooks, worksheets, and so forth to...

Hover Charts

David Gainer03/11/2010
Thanks to Dan Battagin for writing this blog post.  OK, so I'm sure everyone knows about the Freeze Panes feature in Excel - it's been around forever, and it's pretty useful in certain circumstances where you...

Customize an External List Form in InfoPath 2010

InfoPath Team Blog03/11/2010
In this week's “5 for forms” video demo, Trey Brumley, a software design engineer in test shows how you can use InfoPath to customize the form for an external list on SharePoint that connects to a SQL Employee database through Business Connectivity...

Design of VSTO 2010 runtime

Misha Shneerson03/10/2010
When migrating VSTO solutions targeting .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 people are noticing some design changes. Our documentation on migration puts it pretty straightforward about this and does not explain the underlying reasoning for these changes: "If the...

SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 & RBS: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Andrew Connell03/10/2010
One of the new things in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Remote Blob Storage (RBS) which allows admins to setup SQL to save data that would normally go into a BLOB field to be stored somewhere else using an RBS provider. This provider could store data on a...

Deploying Your VSTO add-ins to All Users

Dennis Wallentin03/10/2010
The VSTO development team recently announced that they has released a hotfix for Office 2007 so that we now can deploy VSTO solution to “All Users”. For Office 2010 it has been fixed while for Office 2003 it is left out. For...

Busy Boy

Simon Murhpy03/10/2010
Sorry for the post slow down. I am as busy as chuff. Hope to pick things back up in a few days. cheers Simon

When SharePoint Matters: OneResponse

Jan Tielens03/08/2010
Two weeks ago I was in Iceland, talking about SharePoint 2010 at TM Software (some photos here :-) ). During the course, some students showed me a pretty cool public SharePoint 2007 site that they have been working on: OneResponse...

WSS v3 FAQ CLXXXVIII - 21th February - 6th March 2010

Mike Walsh03/08/2010
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 can't guarantee that they still are. ...

SharePoint 2010 release dates

Mark Harrison03/07/2010
From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ...In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next...

Sharepoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch dates

Mohamed Zaki03/07/2010
Microsoft announced today on Microsoft Sharepoint Team blog the launch date for both Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 to be May, 12th 2010Also the RTM version to be available April 2010. and for everyone yes, you can join the launch as it will be...

SharePoint Survey: How Organizations are Staffing Their SharePoint Teams

Bill English03/06/2010
Recently, Mindsharp conducted a survey about staffing in our customers' deployments. In this extended blog post, I'll outline what we learned and will offer some inductive conclusions on how organizations are staffing their SharePoint deployments....

Beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”

Sven Cipido03/04/2010
Yesterday Microsoft announced the beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”.  This is an eclipse plug from Teamprise (acquired in November 2009).  Read the whole article on Brian...

The resource is owner on one or more projects and cannot be deleted

Gord Schmidt02/25/2010
I was cleaning up an instance of Project Server today. I had deleted all but a handful of projects from the instance and had moved on to the resources. When I attempted to delete the resources (Server Settings, Delete Enterprise Objects, (Delete)...

My Session for Winnipeg Code Camp 2010

Eric Legault 02/23/2010
Come on down this Saturday, Feb. 27 to Red River College for the 3rd annual Winnipeg Code Camp and some good, ol’ fashioned, mind altering codin’ and learnin’ and figurin’!  My session will be on: Designing Outlook Applications For...

Everything you wanted to know about MIX10…

Paul Stubbs02/23/2010
In Mike Swanson’s MIX10 Post, All About MIX10 ,  he tells you everything you wanted to know about MIX10 but were afraid to ask. This MIX is going to be an amazing event. There will be tons of new content around Silverlight, Phone, Tools and...

Code and walkthrough for my Visual Studio Extensibility session

Wouter van Vugt02/21/2010
Body: A few days ago I presented a session on Visual Studio Extensibility. In this post you will find a short walkthrough for this session. During the course of the following walkthrough you will learn to setup a basic project extension, explorer...

Restplorer – visual exploration tool for Excel Services 2010 REST capabilities

Shahar Prish02/17/2010
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a little web app that lets you get embed code for REST URLs/elements in Excel Services in a very easy way – instead of crafting the URL yourself, or navigating through ATOM feeds, you get a nice UI to do that....

On my way to Redmond

Maarten van Stam02/14/2010
  In a few hours I'll be on my way to Redmond. This week it's the MVP Summit 2010 where over 1300 MVP's from all over the world will get over there and meet each other and get some updates on technology. An opportunity to meet...

Powershell output capturing and text wrapping… again…

Serge van den Oever02/13/2010
A while a go I wrote a post “Powershell output capturing and text wrapping: strange quirks... solved!” on preventing output wrapping in PowerShell when capturing the output. In this article I wrote that I used the following way to capture the output...

Ribbon Hero: Gaming is Everywhere

Chris Pratley02/02/2010
Years ago I remember playing the original Halo game and marveling at, among many marvels, how the game seamlessly taught me the controls as part of the storyline of the game. I had not owned or played console games before then since my old Atari...

Thanks!

Ian Tien02/02/2010
Hi everyone, thanks for subscribing to this blog all these years. I left Microsoft in 2009 to found a stealth mode startup in Palo Alto while doing my MBA part time at Stanford. Please do keep in touch: http://linkedin.com/in/iantien. You can find...

SharePoint 2010 Evaluation VHD with Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010

Todd Bleeker01/26/2010
This rocks! Microsoft has released a SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 evaluation VHD complete with everything including Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010 installed and ready to go. Download this excellent developer resource here: http://www.microsoft.com/dow...

Implementing XSL predicates or filters on InfoPath Forms Server 2010

Don Reamey01/21/2010
If you downloaded the beta version of InfoPath Forms Service as part of SharePoint 2010 then you will get the chance to try out filtering data in browser forms.   Filtering is supported on the following controls:   Repeating...

Getting Started With Silverlight and SharePoint 2010

Bryant Likes01/18/2010
One of the cool features of SharePoint 2010 (currently in beta) is that you can set it up on a Windows 7 machine. This means that as a SharePoint developer you no longer have to run a Server OS. To get started I downloaded the SharePoint...

SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup #4

Bil Simser12/30/2009
When last we met the Swine Trek, that scientific genius Dr. Strangepork was trying to fix Captain Link Hearthrobs lighter. Oh wait, wrong show. Sorry about that. This is actually the last installment of the SharePoint Wednesday CodePlex Roundup...

Html.JqGrid - Cleaning up your jqGrid Code

Kevin Hoffman12/22/2009
I was recently working on a project where I had 5 or 6 different pages, each of which was going to have a full CRUD-enabled jqGrid complete with form editing, date pickers, fields that show up in the form and not on the grid, etc. The problem is...

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...

Win 1 of 5 HTC HD2 Windows Phones

William Cornwill12/17/2009
I am very excited about the new HTC HD2 Windows Phone that is launching in January.  It has a massive 4.3” capacitive touch screen and will be running Windows Phone 6.5.  It will also allow me to run Office Mobile 2010 Beta and th...

Staying private on Facebook?

Omar Shahine12/11/2009
This week Facebook rolled out some of the most sweeping changes to the site in recent memory. These changes revolve around their privacy settings, which were previously fairly complicated, poorly organized and in some cases just...

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...

Can a Fish Use a Bicycle?

Rod Paddock11/28/2009
 Can a Fish Use a Bicycle? This post will appear in the Jan/Dec issue of CODE Magazine…. A few months ago, my friend and CODE Magazine contributor Ted Neward posted a statement on Twitter repeating something said by Billy...

Standards, Patents, and the OSP

Doug Mahugh11/24/2009
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  Another characteristic of advanced technologies is that they often contain intellectual property (IP) that may be covered by...

Back online and the Office 2010 Beta

Stephanie Krieger11/23/2009
Well, this has probably been my worst showing since I started this blog. Apologize for the long silence folks... have been buried in work. If you've sent me mail with questions in the last couple of weeks and haven't received an answer, it might be...

Outlook Social Connector and Developers

Ryan Gregg11/19/2009
Hopefully you caught the news yesterday at PDC09 that Microsoft Office 2010 beta is now available for download! One of the cool new features added in the beta for Outlook 2010 is the Outlook Social Connector, which connects social network data into...

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...

Xobni Sets Its Sights on the Enterprise

Ty Anderson11/02/2009
I’ve been waiting for this one for awhile. I’m a fan of Xobni and have found it to be a useful addition to my Outlook inbox. I have enjoyed Xobni’s integration with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. I find it interesting, if not useful, to quickly...

Updated: Building a SharePoint 2010 Service Application #sp2010

Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 10/29/2009
A few weeks back, I wrote a series of three articles on the topic of building SharePoint 2010 Service Applications. Today, I have updated the source code for these articles to include Powershell cmdlets for provisioning, retrieving and updating the...

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...

2009 SharePoint Conference

John Peltonen10/15/2009
I'm getting ready to pack my bags, 3 laptops, 2 external hard drives, etc... and head out to the SharePoint Conference.  I'm looking forward to meeting up with some old friends and make some new ones. 

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...

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...

My Blog has Moved

Mike Walker03/20/2009
location = "http://www.MikeTheArchitect.com"; 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:

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....

Blog Roll
BloggerLast Post
Dick Kusleika03/16/2010
Mauro Cardarelli03/16/2010
Brian Smith03/15/2010
Erika Ehrli03/15/2010
John Durant03/15/2010
Jimmy Pena03/15/2010
Jon Peltier03/15/2010
Angus Logan03/14/2010
Chris Webb03/13/2010
Erik Rucker03/12/2010
Brian Jones03/12/2010
VSTO 203/12/2010
SharePoint Team03/12/2010
SharePoint Buzz03/11/2010
Frice03/11/2010
David Gainer03/11/2010
InfoPath Team Blog03/11/2010
Misha Shneerson03/10/2010
Andrew Connell03/10/2010
Dennis Wallentin03/10/2010
Simon Murhpy03/10/2010
Jan Tielens03/08/2010
Mike Walsh03/08/2010
Mark Harrison03/07/2010
Mohamed Zaki03/07/2010
Bill English03/06/2010
Sven Cipido03/04/2010
Arno Nel03/04/2010
Matt Cornell03/02/2010
Gord Schmidt02/25/2010
Eric Legault 02/23/2010
Paul Stubbs02/23/2010
Wouter van Vugt02/21/2010
Shahar Prish02/17/2010
Kathleen McGrath02/15/2010
KC Lemson 02/15/2010
Maarten van Stam02/14/2010
Serge van den Oever02/13/2010
Chris Pratley02/02/2010
Ian Tien02/02/2010
Todd Bleeker01/26/2010
Don Reamey01/21/2010
Bryant Likes01/18/2010
Bil Simser12/30/2009
Kevin Hoffman12/22/2009
dwinter12/21/2009
Dan Winter12/21/2009
William Cornwill12/17/2009
Omar Shahine12/11/2009
Chris Meirick12/04/2009
Rod Paddock11/28/2009
Doug Mahugh11/24/2009
Stephanie Krieger11/23/2009
Ryan Gregg11/19/2009
Eric Carter11/18/2009
Ty Anderson11/02/2009
Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 10/29/2009
Andrew May (Microsoft)10/19/2009
John Peltonen10/15/2009
Andrew Ma09/21/2009
Andrew Whitechapel08/30/2009
Jensen Harris07/17/2009
Jeff Bell07/13/2009
Alonso Robles06/24/2009
Charlie Wu05/31/2009
Mike Walker03/20/2009
Gus Collazo03/11/2009
John Roe02/10/2009
Avner Kashtan02/10/2009
OfficeRocker02/05/2009
speakTECH-BI01/19/2009
Mark Bower01/02/2009
Greg Dolder10/07/2008
Patrick Tisseghem09/08/2008
Kevin Boske07/17/2008
Peter Jausovec06/30/2008
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