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Monday, August 17, 2009 11:44 PM

Using InfoPath to add twitter-like functionality to SharePoint

The philosophy of many technical folks that I talk to is “Lock it down and save the user from themselves”. While this may seem great from a helpdesk or risk perspective, in reality it means that your users will have to ask you to make the change everytime,
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Monday, April 20, 2009 6:02 AM

Windows washer

Interesting article from AP on the design process behind Windows 7, and how many of the ideas were pollinated from the Office 2007 development process. Much like the ribbon, development of the Windows 7 interface was informed through data gathered by
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Friday, April 17, 2009 1:30 AM

Bending the Ribbon to your will…

There are some great resources to help smooth over the transition to Office 2007 and a very popular tool is the Get Started add-ins for Office: Word: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F587370C-FDAE-4EDE-B528-AC58031A5DFF&displaylang=en
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:53 AM

Generating documents with C#, Open XML and the Document Reflector

I’ve been playing around with the Document Reflector in the Open XML SDK v2 CTP lately and I have to say, it is fantastic. You can take a document with fancy formatting, styles, pictures etc and turn it into a C# class that will generate said document.
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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:57 AM

Ms Dewey makes a re-appearance

Ok, so it isn’t Ms. Dewey per se, but it is the same kind of digital guide that hangs out in your web browser throwing around video case studies at you (in silverlight, naturally). Microsoft Success Stories At this stage the case studies are all based
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:53 AM

New OBA (Sales Forecast)

The OBA guys are doing some really , really cool stuff. As someone that works with salespeople every day, I know how tough and time consuming (but business critical) forecasting can be. Any time that an organisation can save from time consuming processes
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Monday, June 02, 2008 11:25 PM

New SharePoint resources for .NET Developers

Check out this new SharePoint development site (full of silverlighty goodness):   Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:40 AM

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
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:28 PM

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
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:22 AM

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
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:24 AM

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
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:57 PM

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
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:37 PM

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
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Monday, November 05, 2007 11:16 AM

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
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:04 AM

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
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