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	Simple Gantt Chart Dick Kusleika 05/10/2008 I recently discovered how quick it is to create a simple Gantt chart in Excel. The following example was created for Excel 2003. It should work the same for other versions. Create a worksheet similar to the above table. Note: the formula in...
	TechEd EMEA 2008: IT Professionals and Developers switched places. Maarten van Stam 05/10/2008 It came to my attention when checking my agenda and the TechEd website. I noticed the dates changed for TechEd EMEA 2008. The weeks are still the same however the order was changed. The IT Professionals week was planned for the second...
	$#%%#$% KC Lemson 05/10/2008 I can't wait until the law against using cellphones while driving goes into effect in Washington state. Tomorrow is Mother's day. It was also a day on which I was planning to run my first half-marathon, which I have been training for for months. ...
	Turning off automatic syncing in Zune - how's it done? Mike Walsh 05/10/2008 I have a problem that my Black Zune thinks that if I delete a CD I've ripped to the portable (in order to transfer it to the Zune) from the portable, I also want it to disappear from the Zune. Not so. I want them to stay on the...
	Business Intelligence Must Read Mauro Cardarelli 05/10/2008 I just finished reading "Drive Business Performance - Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution" by Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts. Wow, what a fantastic book! It is one of the best I have read on the subject of Performance...
	The Case For Shared Add-ins Andrew Whitechapel 05/09/2008 People have been building native shared add-ins for Office (and related apps) since their introduction in Office 2000. People have been building managed shared add-ins since the introduction of .NET in 2002. VSTO support for managed add-ins was...
	Knowledge and Talent in a People-Ready Business SharePoint Team 05/09/2008 We have been receiving a growing number of inquiries from customers asking about the business value as well as Microsoft's vision of "Social Networking" and "Enterprise 2.0" and "Social Media" and other buzzwords related to Social Computing in the...
	Office Development While You Workout Eric Carter 05/09/2008 Harry Miller has done a really cool series of podcasts that you can download and listen to while you workout, drive, etc. See http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/04/17/office-development-audio-series-1-is-now-available-harry-miller.aspx Super...
	DAISY translator released Doug Mahugh 05/09/2008 I was traveling on Tuesday/Wednesday this week and wasn't around when the news came out, but the DAISY translator plugin for Word and an update to the DAISY Pipeline were announced on Wednesday. Here are a few places to learn more about how it works...
	Gin and the Cognitive Surplus Kevin Hoffman 05/09/2008 I recently ran across this 15 minute clip of Clay Shirky talking about what he brilliantly refers to as the cognitive surplus and how that applies to things like Wikipedia and Web 2.0. It's an absolute must-watch
	PivotTables: Calculated Items David Gainer 05/08/2008 Today's author: David Gainer, a Program Manager on the Excel team. PivotTables are designed to help users make sense of large amounts of data by providing an easy way to build a summarized report. In addition, PivotTables can be rearranged easily,...
	Office Developer Community Submitted Content Erika Ehrli 05/08/2008 I believe that people who have an opportunity to work with the field own an incomparable wealth of knowledge. MVPs, partners, consultants, and developers learn through experience all the technical details needed to design, develop, and deploy...
	Creating Hierarchical Menus with a CustomAction in SharePoint Jan Tielens 05/07/2008 It’s a fairly known technique to make use of CustomActions to add elements to the out-of-the-box user interface of SharePoint: you can add menu items to the Site Actions menu, you can add links on the Site Settings page, etc. The following piece of...
	Son of GrumpyWookie to be a young web developer William Cornwill 05/07/2008 This is the son of a friend of mine Chris O'Connor (GrumpyWookie). It is very funny how the sons of nerd become nerds (my son is also a chip of my shoulder)...I also like the way he promotes SharePoint and C#.
	Stacked Area Chart Challenge Jon Peltier 05/07/2008 Ganesh, a reader of my web site, asked whether I could make a chart like this one: The series are shown as a fluctuating blue Value line and a steadily increasing red Limit line in the line chart below, but Ganesh wanted to color code regions in...
	Data types 2 Simon Murhpy 05/07/2008 I’m surprised that I seem to be the only one who often knows the data type I expect. Maybe I should do less ‘poor mans ETL’ type work? Would it be useful then if cells could have a fixed data type? one that...
	Build Zune Games Today.. or Maybe Tomorrow Bryant Likes 05/07/2008 The XNA Team announced the CTP of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 today: Today, we are delivering the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of XNA Game Studio 3.0, giving you the ability to build games for the entire family of Zune media...
	Analysis Services Browser Views addin Chris Webb 05/07/2008 Via Russell Christopher, news of a new addin for BIDS created by Yossi Elkayam and Eran Sagi of Microsoft Israel that allows you to save the Analysis Services queries created in the browser...
	Day-to-day with Subversion Bil Simser 05/06/2008 How many times have you said "What version is in production?" or "Can we rebuild production to fix a bug and release an update?" Better yet my favourite: "We're working on Feature Y so we can't fix...
	Looping Through Items in a SharePoint List with SharePoint Designer Workflows Jeff Cate \| Kevin Pine 05/06/2008 One of the things that most frustrates me about SharePoint Designer workflows is that there is no convenient way to write loops. Not only can we not create For…Next, For…Each, Do…While, and Do…Until loops within our workflows, but there is no...
	New published paper - advanced usage of Excel Services and File Format manipulations Shahar Prish 05/06/2008 Sergei Gundorov (whom you may remember from a previous post) has published a paper on MSDN where he talks about a very interesting solution his team wrote in the Microsoft IT department. The solution is probably one of the most advanced...
	Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post Gates-Era Mike Walker 05/06/2008 There is a new book out called Microsoft 2.0: How to Stay Relevant in the Post Gates-Era written by Mary Jo Foley. There has been some buzz about this book so I thought I would check it out and take a read. Plus, I heard that I was in the book in...
	Fun with Reports and Maps! by Gus Collazo speakTECH-BI 05/06/2008 In this blog, let's take a quick look at how to use a map to display nationwide sales data on a SQL Server report. You can jump quickly to the bottom of this blog entry to see how the report will finally turn out. To try out the steps below, you...
	Triple Boot on the MacBook Pro: Leopard, Vista x64 and Windows 2008 x64 Andrew Connell 05/05/2008 [via Spence] Aw-yeah... Spence just posted a killer little series of articles documenting the process of setting up a triple-boot experience on a MacBook Pro. I've been living with a MBP for the last 6 months and love it. The only thing I'd like is...
	Follow up to Transparency Forms Erik Rucker 05/05/2008 Renaud posted some comments to the previous post about transparency forms and made some really cool enhancements to the code, along with a note about using a class module to make it easier to use. This is how I use transparency forms in my own...
	Hotmail now supports the i’m Initiative Omar Shahine 05/05/2008 I’m pretty excited that a feature my team worked on recently just launched. Hotmail now supports the i’m Initiative that was previously limited to Windows Live Messenger. You can read all the details on the Hotmail blog. What is...
	Vista mediacenter tip #2 : show dvd covers Sven Cipido 05/05/2008 Just a little quick tip. In Vista MC, you still see a standard folder for your ripped DVD. The same as in XP MC. If you want to have the DVD cover instead which is nice when browsing through your DVD...
	Open XML ... Not just for developers ... Stephanie Krieger 05/05/2008 Open XML (which, among other things, is behind the new file formats used for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 (as well as the 2008 versions for Mac)) have surely gotten their share of attention, positive and negative, as their supporters and...
	Xobni - A very useful Outlook add in Mart Muller 05/05/2008 I just got an invitation from my colleague Wouter, giving me a link to download Xobni, a very useful Outlook add in for managing emails, contacts, etc. "After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in...
	Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit Mohamed Zaki 05/05/2008 Via Sharepoint team blog It's with great excitement that I get to be the first to announce the initial release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit! Since shipping SharePoint back in November of 2006 we've been listening to your...
	Importing An E07 List Into SharePoint Fails - Solution Seems Kinda Odd Dick Moffat 05/04/2008 Today I tried to create a new SharePoint List by importing a range of Excel data from my new original Vista machine with Office 3007 2007 XP1 installed. When I try to create a new "List from a Spreadsheet" from within SP, I get...
	Getting in touch with my artistic side Angus Logan 05/03/2008 One thing I like about twitter which I haven’t done until now, is setting a cool background image. The picture below is a stitch of about 24 images which were taken over the North Pole (flying from Seattle to Korea) (you can even see the original...
	Microsoft support for ISO Open XML OfficeRocker 04/29/2008 seems to be a good deal of chatter recently about our support for the modified version of Open XML that resulted from the rigorous ratification process. The best summary of the story I found is over on Oliver Bell's blog here so I won't...
	Experiments in Productivity: Office Labs Jensen Harris 04/28/2008 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...
	My new gig is Office Labs Chris Pratley 04/28/2008 For some time I've been quiet about what I have been up to since leaving the OneNote team in the capable hands of David and the gang. Well, today my new team's external site went live at http://officelabs.com. As you can see on that site, Office...
	Check which Excel version is installed Dennis Wallentin 04/27/2008 Whenever I need some enviroment information I always tries to read the wanted values from Windows registry. In VB.NET this is as rather straightful process as we have access to the namespace “Microsoft.Win32′ which includes the...
	Deploying your VSTO 2008 Add-In to All Users (Part III) Misha Shneerson 04/24/2008 This post is both the continuation of part I and part II installments but it also addresses new product that has shipped since VSTO 2005 SE and this is VSTO 2008 (which is also known as VSTO 3.0 - see the complete matrix of VSTOs in this...
	Hey Outlook, where's that folder? Eric Legault 04/23/2008 I use Xobni and Outlook 2007's Instant Search quite often. Once I find and open the e-mail that I've retrieved using either mechanism, I almost always want to find and display the folder where that message is stored. So here's a...
	...in Bed Gord Schmidt 04/23/2008 I do not remember who taught me how to improve fortune cookies, but whoever it was has provided additional amusement in my life many times. Fortune cookie messages can be funny if they happen to have a timely message, but usually they are rather...
	Latest SharePoint Blog Posts SharePoint Buzz 04/22/2008 If you are not one of the 2000+ visitors that visit SharePoint Buzz daily, then you should be! Why? I am constantly reading the latest rss feed items from my collection of 250+ SharePoint RSS feeds (majority from SharePoint bloggers) and sharing...
	The Future of Groove and SharePoint Mark Bower 04/22/2008 Some hints from Ray Ozzie this week on the future overlap between Groove and SharePoint: "You asked if Groove is the future UI of SharePoint. I might ask the same thing, is SharePoint the future UI of Groove" Microsoft will increase the...
	Looking to Learn about Office Development & VSTO? Ty Anderson 04/18/2008 Body: 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 become a proficient...
	“Invalid Data” error when calculating the result of 2 or more fields InfoPath Team Blog 04/17/2008 When you create a calculated field in an InfoPath XML node (field) you may find that some of the resulting calculations produce an “Invalid Data” error: This behavior is a known issue when doing floating point calculations and is not specific...
	Sneaking past the SharePoint Usage Log Avner Kashtan 04/16/2008 I'm writing a piece of code that regularly polls a MOSS server and checks several files. This can happen quite a few times a day, and this totally skews my Usage Reports for my sites. Does anyone know of a way to tell MOSS to ignore calls made by...
	ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML Brian Jones 04/09/2008 I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made over the past few days. I was attending the SC34 meetings in Oslo and there was a good amount of focus on document format standards (SC34, as...
	New Mac Messenger for OCS Chris Meirick 04/09/2008 According to Eric Swift, Senior Director of the Office Communications Group at Microsoft, they are working on a new Messenger client for Mac with a beta coming later this year. The new Mac Messenger (Office Communicator for Mac?) may not...
	Zobozdravnik Peter Jausovec 04/07/2008 Se ze nekaj casa nisem oglasil - zaceli smo delati s polno paro in je bolj malo casa, da bi kaj napisal na blog (vem, da to ni dovolj dober razlog, ampak vseeno). Pred kaksnim mesecem sem se narocil k zobozdravniku. Sodelavec mi je predlagal...
	Update Your Blog Readers, We've Moved! VSTO 2 04/03/2008 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 Stubbs 03/23/2008 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...
	Building Solutions with SharePoint: Best Practices Scott Jamison 03/14/2008 I get a lot of questions regarding the use of SharePoint as a solutions platform. I personally think it's a great tool for many (but not all) applications. The reason? SharePoint lends something that we like to call the...
	Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update v.18 - March Ian Tien 03/13/2008 Contents: Upcoming Events Upcoming Webcasts Training: online and regional options Resources: whitepapers, case studies, datasheets, webcasts, books, etc News Links and Press Releases Hot Topics SQL Launch 2008...
	Patching presentation from SPC2008 dwinter 03/11/2008 I have gotten a few requests for the Patching presentation that was done at SPC2008. You can log in with your MySPC account if you were an attendee and get access to all of the powerpoint files, if you have need for them before the...
	Patching presentation from SPC2008 Dan Winter 03/11/2008 I have gotten a few requests for the Patching presentation that was done at SPC2008. You can log in with your MySPC account if you were an attendee and get access to all of the powerpoint files, if you have need for them before the...
	Office: Put Your Document Name on the Title Bar or the Clipboard The Office Letter 03/02/2008 We explain two macros that help you extract and use the full path and file name of your current document.
	Kerberos & Sharepoint Bruce Sandeman 02/28/2008 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 Durant 02/27/2008 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...
	Displaying File Size in a Content Query John Roe 02/21/2008 I was asked recently how to display the file size in a content query. After a bit of digging I was able to find the appropriate field names and use some xsl from the search results to properly format and display the file size. Note:...
	OpenXML Package Editor RTW with VSTO Powertools! Kevin Boske 02/21/2008 Back when we were working heavily on the OpenXML file format developer tools, many of us were using zip and Notepad to edit the OpenXML files. Tom Underhill from the Office graphics team made all our lives easier with a VS package for...
	ODC rocked the house! Joanna Bichsel 02/15/2008 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 Jamescon 02/14/2008 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 Omar2 02/11/2008 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...
	Edit file in Wss3 web application with SharePoint Designer blows up your web site Serge van den Oever 01/29/2008 I wanted to create a simple html file in the root of my Wss3 web application, so I created an empty file test.htm. I double clicked te file and because I have SharePoint Designer installed, it is the default editor for .htm files. I put some test...
	The power of the press Don Reamey 01/14/2008 I just got the Jan 7th issue of Information Week and i was reading the letters to the editor. There were a couple of letters about Windows Vista in this issue. One of the letters I found very interesting. It stated how arrogant Microsoft was about...
	Using WPF in Outlook Folder Home Pages Ryan Gregg 01/14/2008 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...
	Finding Color Inspiration from Paint Arno Nel 01/03/2008
	Best places to get XPS Info Andy Simonds 12/12/2007 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? Frice 12/05/2007 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...
	Microsoft Reader John Peltonen 11/21/2007 Is anyone else having problems getting Microsoft Reader to work on 64 bit Vista? For that matter, is anyone else using MS Reader? I started a few years ago and am addicted. I love having access to Powell's rather large ebook...
	Windows 2008 Server Pricing Announced Bill English 11/14/2007 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx Bill EnglishMindsharp
	My blog has moved Wouter van Vugt 11/03/2007 After having worked as a trainer for Info Support the past couple of years I have transitioned to the next phase of my career. I have started my own company Code Counsel through which I actively evangelize Microsoft .NET technology, with a focus on...
	speakTECH acquires the OfficeZealot.com site Steve Hansen 10/16/2007 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 Kiselman 10/15/2007 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-Emilio 10/10/2007 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 Ma 10/02/2007 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 Kremer 09/07/2007 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 Puri 08/21/2007 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 Hernandez 07/19/2007 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 Campbell 07/06/2007 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...
	OneNote and GTD Melissa Macbeth 06/20/2007 I recently was passed a blog that I thought might interest some of you about how to use OneNote as part of a Getting Things Done system. Check it out: http://www.blog.7breaths.co.uk/2007/06/gtd-with-onenote-collected-links.html If you are...
	"I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through" Todd Bleeker 06/13/2007 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 Affronti 06/13/2007 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 Murray 05/28/2007 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 Green 05/18/2007 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 Bedell 04/12/2007 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 Schaeflein 04/11/2007 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 Tkachenko 03/26/2007 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 info 03/24/2007 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...
	Blog Moved! Time to update your RSS Feed!!! Patrick Tisseghem 02/26/2007 My blog has moved to a SharePoint 2007 environment. All of the posts are moved too and you will be automatically redirected if you go for the old URL but you should update the RSS feed if you are subscribed to the blog. New blog URL:...
	The Five Ways of Learning Melanie Spiller 02/10/2007 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 Rockey 01/26/2007 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 Wesolowski 12/04/2006 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...
	The RTM SDKs Will Be Downloadable on November 28th, 2006 Mike Fitzmaurice 11/17/2006 I jumped the gun in yesterday's second post when I said the SDKs were ready along with the downloadable trials. They are indeed finished being written, but there are more hoops than you can imagine getting things staged, approved, tested,...
	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...
	MSFP and Motorola Q come to Canada Michael Reinhart 10/12/2006 Check out my post on this topic.
	New icons of Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 TR Alexander Gorlach 09/18/2006 New icons of Microsoft Office seems very good, but still not in the vector format:
	Microsoft PDF and XPS Add-ins and the 2007 Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh Jeff Bell 09/14/2006 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 Lemson 09/07/2006 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 J 08/25/2006 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 Moving to www.codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock Rod Paddock 05/06/2006 I have moved my blog to www.codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock. I'm more of a code head and want to be on a blog read by more coders. Thanks to Chris and the folks at officezealot. This was my 1st blog and the experience has been great! Rodman
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