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 adding recycle bin functionality to SharePoint
  • Ben Waldron shows how to write Office 2003 smart tags in managed code

The issue is available online here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/default.aspx