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Monday, July 27, 2009 5:41 PM

New Aussie Community Blogger

Jake Ginnivan ’s been hassling me on and off with difficult VSTO questions for the last year or so. It looks like Jeremy Thake’s finally persuaded him to start blogging. He’s kicked off with the first post in a 2-part series Writing a Facebook event synchroniser
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 3:36 PM

Launching a website from a button in Office

There was a question on one of the internal lists today: "Looking for a no-brainer way to demo just adding a simple button to Office that goes to a URL." It’s going to work a little differently in Word & Excel than it does in Outlook. Word/Excel/Etc
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:40 PM

Ramp yourself up with Ramp Up

I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 3:21 AM

VSTO/OBA Thought Leadership and Clarity from Craig Bailey

Craig’s been doing some great work around OBA and VSTO on his blog lately. As well as his recent presentation at SBTUG , he’s posted CLARITY: Office Business Applications (OBA) VSTO: VS2008 SP1 enhancements OBA: Office Business Applications resources
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:54 AM

VSTO v3 Deployment Session

I had a great time over the last couple of days hanging out with Christen Boyd and some of the other folk from the VSTO team here in Seattle. This culminated yesterday with a webcast of the session I’ll be doing here next week and then again at TechEd
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:11 AM

Deploying VSTO v3 Applications - Session at our internal conference

I just got confirmation that the session I proposed for our internal technical conference, TechReady has been accepted. Deploying VSTO v3 Applications Building compelling, contextual applications on the Microsoft Office platform has become much simpler
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:51 AM

Tech.Ed US Day 0 - The Journey Begins

After 28-odd hours (and some of them were very odd) of travel, I arrived in Orlando ready to start the TechEd experience. After a brief sleep, I declined the complimentary buffet breakfast (served on the very best Styrofoam) at the hotel and jumped on
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:22 PM

Developing an add-in for multiple versions of Office

One of the common questions I get asked when I do sessions on VSTO / OBA development is "how can I target Office 2003 and Office 2007?" (I also get asked about previous versions of Office, but I have a less helpful response there). Mary Lee's
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 4:15 PM

WOW! It's the Technology of TechEd Track

Following Kleefy 's not so unexpected announcement , I've taken over the Technology of TechEd Track for this year's TechEd Australia event. Here's the spiel that I wrote for the track. Come on a journey behind the scenes at Tech•Ed. This track will
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 1:25 PM

The Portal is Dead! Long Live the Portal!

I had a great time presenting at the Perth SharePoint User Group last Tuesday. I've uploaded my deck to my SkyDrive if you're interested. The session talked about surfacing relevant information in the context in which it's needed. The example I gave is
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:18 PM

Content when you need it - Great training kits available

I went to see the clever folk at Vivid Group yesterday. Being clever, they've already established an internal user group of sorts, but they're often looking for compelling content to deliver. Fortunately, I was able to point them to some great resources.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:59 PM

OBA Sample Application Kits Release to Web

The VSTO team have been hard at work both with their work on .NET3.5SP1 and on other things to enhance your VSTO development experience. recently, they released a series of OBA Sample Application Kits. Christin Boyd blogged about them on the VSTO team
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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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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
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