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A blog about Microsoft Office, Groove, SharePoint, Software Development, Business Productivity, Social Computing, Cognitive Science and anything else that comes to mind.

This stream of conciousness brought to you by Alistair Speirs, Office Technology Specialist @ Microsoft Australia.

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New SharePoint resources for .NET Developers
Check out this new SharePoint development site (full of silverlighty goodness):   Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint. Read More...
What is an Office Business Application?
Is it a macro? A sharepoint customisation? A mashup? What is important, in my mind, is that the user is shielded from the complexity (or lack of it) in the process and the application can just stay out of their way so they can do their job and keep using Read More...
The Command Line is dead. Long Live the Command Line!
Graphical Powershell . Mmmmmm. it almost makes the command line sexy again: Want to try it out but can't even work out Pasta Shells? Check out the Office Script Repository here Read More...
5 second Tutorial: Customise the Word Ribbon with Visual Studio 2008
1. Open Visual Studio 2008 and create a Word 2007 addin 2. Add a New Item of type Ribbon (Visual Designer) to the project 3. Now you can drag and drop buttons and controls on to the Office Ribbon to your hearts content. This includes all of those funky Read More...
Top 5 Apps every Office developer should know
It seems like everybody is doing "Top x Predictions for 2008", "Top x Resolutions for 2007" and the like. So here is one of my own: 1. Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Studio Tools for Office included? Templates for Office 2007, Office Read More...
Upcoming Office Developer Training
Office development has really come of age since the days or "record new macro". Good developers know that for best results, they'll need to deliver their solutions right to users Office Client applications while still employing the Office Server Read More...
Upcoming Visual Studio 2008 training
Lets be honest, we all know that the coolest thing about Visual Studio 2008 is Visual Studio Tools for Office. Which means that we don't have to get deep and (morally) dirty with VBA macros, but can do it with .NET. So, all good office developers should Read More...
Will Microsoft's Orcas Make a Splash?
I read an interesting review on eweek tonight: The reality is that Visual Studio 2008 introduces features that only a subset of its users can really appreciate, and, generally speaking, those features are targeted at developers that work within the .Net Read More...
Some cool Office 2007 Deployment and Development links
I try to stay away from posting random streams of links to other peoples hard earned content. That being said, here is four articles Deployment Business Desktop Deployment Resources is a pretty extensive site from the UK with all the resources, webcasts Read More...
An InfoPath 2007 Template Part - Australian Address
Template Parts are a very cool feature new to InfoPath in the 2007 version. they allow you to reuse parts of a form over and over again, complete with custom actions, UI and data sources already built. One common thing that many forms have is an address Read More...
Office Business Applications
A question came up today "Al, what ever happened to all that interesting (and complicated) Information Bridge Framework stuff?" . Like any good Office TSP, I knew the answer :) Office Business Applications (apart from having a much more descriptive name) Read More...
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