What's the subject of your favourite desktop wallpaper or screen saver image? Something relaxing? Something that says “hey, I'm a hip individual”? A photograph from your most recent holiday? Your most recent girl/boy friend? Inquiring minds...

Clearly today is ActionsPane day! Paul Cornell blogs on VSTO2 support for putting custom UI into the Office Task Pane . In this case, he gives an example incorporating Word, the calendar control, bookmarks, and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2.0...

(by ksharkey) Johnathan points us to the VS 2005 CTP Wiki . Excellent list of fixes, workarounds and other VS2005 joyousness. TTFN - Kent

Wow, that was easier then I thought! With the obligatory test firings out of the way, I think I’m ready to roll. My name is Derek Dysart and I am an Application Development Consultant (ADC) with Microsoft Premier support. In my role I basically manage...

A lot of times you will want to display only unique values inside the Data View. What I have here is a variation of the Muenchian Method using an <xsl:key>. Check out jenitennison.com for a few variations on this. First, browse out to your Announcements...

So, you’ve got Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) to look at the messages and orchestrations inside your BizTalk server, but typically you want more application level logging in the real world. The Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) is...

Brad Abrams forwarded an interesting question to me this morning Questions: What is the difference between enumerating an array using for versus foreach ? What is the recommended practice and why? I did a quick analysis for him which he...

I was just talking to someone internally about this, and thought I should post it: All of the values that the Data View Web Part get back are strings. Basically, we just take the values in the XML and display them as they are (in some cases, like with...

When you create a field of type URL in SharePoint , users need to fill out two form fields: “Link” and “Description”. When the Data View Web Part requests this field value, it gets back the full String value as concatenated by...

Interesting question over an internal alias today… Questions: What is the difference between enumerating an array using for versus foreach ? What is the recommended practice and why? Here is an example: Assembly[] assemblies...

Chris Kunicki --Office developer extraordinaire-- blogs about Smart Documents VSTO2 style . VSTO2 makes it super easy to put your custom winforms UI into the Office Task Pane--like 1 line of code easy (repeatedly press Ctrl+F1 while inside of Word...

Briefly, I was in a serious collision with a truck while training on my Trek 5200. I have some broken bones, and I am just now starting to get a little bit of mobility. This is why I have not been blogging or doing much else. I apologize for the hiatus...