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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:44 PM

Community is where you make it

As my blog tag says, it's all about community. Just before I went dark to go on the Wave Launch tour, I got a note from Daniel Vaughan to say he was doing a presentation to a User Group inside the firewall at his work (btw, Daniel's blogged about the
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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:54 PM

Unable to customise context menus in PowerPoint 2007?

I got this question from one of our partners yesterday. The application developed by my client is an add-in for PowerPoint. One of the features it provides involves adding custom items to the context menu of shapes and pictures using the Office object
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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:04 PM

Deploying VSTO 3 solutions

While the default mechanism for deploying VSTO v3 Add-Ins is ClickOnce, there there's now also a documented way to deliver VSTO solutions via an MSI installer. By extension, this should mean you can push it out via group policy (or SMS or whatever). Mary
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:47 PM

More Office Developer Documentation

She's indefatigable! Erika Ehrli keeps posting these gems. Hot on the heels of my post about Office Object Model References , I discovered two great posts from her. Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2! ; and Open XML Format
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:48 PM

Microsoft launches RoboChamps, a worldwide simulated robotics competition platform built on .NET

It's seems like competitions are the flavour of the month. A couple of weeks ago we launched a world-wide competition for people building simulated robots. This is "... a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:09 PM

Open XML Links - catching up.

I'm catching up with a bunch of Open XML blogging from ages ago, so apologies if some of these are old news to you. Binary Format Documentation Released Under the OSP and Binary to OOXML Translator Project Brian Jones has blogged about the great news
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Monday, May 12, 2008 8:18 PM

Office Object Model References on MSDN

On an internal alias, I recently got asked a question that had come from a customer: "I wouldn't have harassed you like this, except that I've done heaps of searching and can't locate what I need. My company has a new CIO, a consequence of which
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 6:48 PM

VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products

Anyone who's been to any of my recent presentations knows that I'm a passionate advocate of developing on the Office platform . The release of VSTO v3 with VS2008 was a big step forward in making Office development a truly first-class .NET development
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:32 PM

Starting the conversation at Tech.Ed

The three themes of Tech.Ed this year are Learn , Explore and Connect . For me, at least, much of the value of attending a technical conference is to get to meet and interact with like-minded geeks and subject matter experts. I was having a chat with
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:20 AM

Registrations open for Tech.Ed Australia

It's alive! The registration site for Tech.Ed Australia is live. Don't miss out on the great Early Bird special offer. There's a couple of great features of this Silverlight-enabled page. There are testimonials from Tech.Ed alumni and two consolidated
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified

Still catching up on my blogging, so this one's a little old. The irrepressible Trika blogged about the VS2008 series of certifications and included a bunch of different paths through the tracks based on your current certification status. There's also
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Friday, May 02, 2008 10:13 AM

MS Press Online Store now open in Australia with discounts for UG members until the end of May

I got this note from Tania Netterfield, our partner manager for CPLS and the local MS Press representative. Hello all, I’m delighted to advise you that our press distributor Woodslane in conjunction with MS has developed an Microsoft Online Press
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Friday, May 02, 2008 9:23 AM

US Tech.Ed Session Catalogues Live

As I said , I'm off to Tech.Ed Developers in Orlando at the beginning of next month (and our event manager, Fran Barlow, is off to Tech.Ed IT Professionals the following week). I also noted that the track owners for Tech.Ed New Zealand and Australia are
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:54 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide, v1.08

( ex ) VSTS Blogfather, Rob Caron , announced the availability of the Visual Studio Product Comparison Guide back in January. He's just announced the availability of the latest version of the guide (version 1.08). Ever wanted to know what's included in
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:56 PM

Help us find this year's most Innovative Teachers

Eight teachers who use technology in innovative ways to support learning will win a trip to KL next year to compete in the APAC awards. The winner will also receive a laptop computer for themselves and four HP laptops and a printer for their school. The
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