Deciding Between Snchronous and Asynchronous Programming Models...

The February MSDN Magazine is devoted in large part to Office development. John Durant write on creating Research Pane services to search IM logs. Alok Mehta writes on intregrating data into Excel from Web Services Maxim Karpov and Eric Schoonover discuss...

Great new article from David Hill in the MS Architect's Journal on choosing between smart client and thin client architecture. Also discusses the advantaged of using the MS Office applications as a smart client host to your solutions. http://msdn.microsoft...

Looks like our execs have started talking about some of the features planned for Exchange 12: http://news.com.com/Next+Exchange+to+combine+e-mail%2C+voice+mail/2100-1012_3-5542542.html

Thanks for all the great comments over the past week or around SharePoint discussion lists. The Program Manager for Discussion Lists in WSS v.next was has told me that the majority of the issues you raised will be addressed in the next version. Looking...

I posted my theory yesterday on why SharePoint discussion lists aren't used more. The votes are in and it looks like I am out-gunned on this one with most folks blaming poor feature set for low take-up......

Avner writes about how to attach a smart document XML Expansion Pack to a document programmatically:...

One of the most underused features of Windows SharePoint Services is discussion lists. I don't think I have ever seen an implementation where a vibrant community has been interacting using discussion lists. On the face of it you'd think this would be...

The other day I was explaining to a customer about the different types of Information Worker. Doing a web search afterwards I found very little information available about a bunch of terms we tend to bandy about quite freely without ever really explaining...

Do you have an idea for a new feature or addition to one of the Office products? Maybe there is something about the way a feature works that really annoys you? Believe it or not, there is a simple way to submit your ideas to the Office team for consideration...