I am pleased to announce that the hands-on labs (HOLs) for the Office 2010 Training Course modules on Channel 9 have been updated to include Visual Basic code samples as well! So now VB developers can work the Office 2010 HOLs in their preferred programming...

To continue the theme of landing external data in Office 2010, I’ve taken a demo excerpt from a session I presented at a conference last week to show how easy it is to land OData information in an add-in. In this sample I simply use the Northwind Database...

In my blog post, MSDN Webcast: Creating Microsoft Office 2010 Add-Ins Using SharePoint 2010 as a Data Source , I pointed you to the webcast discussing how to create Office add-ins that leverage SharePoint 2010 data. But here I’m pleased to announce the...

Microsoft Office Business Applications (OBAs) have evolved significantly in the 2010 release. In this free MSDN webcast , Steve Fox explores how building OBAs has progressed, and he discusses the types of solutions you can build using Microsoft Office...

A common request for developers is to surface internal Microsoft SharePoint data within the Microsoft Office client applications. This allows users to interact with SharePoint list data in the direct context of their document editing experience. In this...

Yes, Office 2010 is now available to all!. Check out some video clips . Then, for the developer inside of you, check out these videos on the Office Developer Center and start developing solutions for Office. And Microsoft is “all in” for the cloud. So...

During TechEd week a number of new videos around Office 2010 have been released on “ The Office Blog ” show on Channel 9 . For developers, be sure to check out: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 2010 with Reza Chitsaz, Senior Program Manager for...

Many have found the new Core Office Development unit helpful in the Channel 9 Office 2010 Learning Center , but there is now SO MUCH MORE available for those that love or want to learn how to write VBA code. The new Office VBA Developer Center has just...

To coincide with the Office 2010 Business Launch , I have provided a refresh of the Office 2010 developer training content on Channel 9 and its downloadable Office 2010 Developer Training Kit . All hands-on labs and source code have been refreshed and...

If you want to kick the tires and build out some scenarios on the Office and SharePoint 2010 RTM environment this is an excellent way to start. This VHD includes Windows Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008...

The Microsoft Excel product team is looking for Excel 2010 solutions that will help the millions of soccer fans around the world enjoy the 2010 World Cup - and get developers using Office 2010. Any application qualifies so long as it includes VBA code...

Congratulations to the Engineering Teams (see the full blog posting here ) for hitting this milestone for SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. These are a fantastic set of products and it’s great to see them moving forward for broad...

Today in my session at the Visual Studio Launch Conference and Expo I’ll be demonstrating an all new VSIX Office Business Application (OBA) Deployment project item template that is now available from the SharePoint and Office Developer & Platform...

Office 2007 and 2010 use XML-based file formats and the newly shipped Open XML SDK 2.0 ( see announcement ) is the tool to use for pulling data out or injecting data into your Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents – without the use of the object model ...

John Durant has just announced the availability of an excellent new tool for learning about Office development. John writes, “The Office Developer Atlas interactive training tool (built using Silverlight technology) is a great way for you to come up to...

If you are looking for some excellent sessions delivered to your desktop by industry experts, join this free SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference. Sign in now! The European event is February 18th . Enjoy!

For all those that haven’t experienced or want to further experience development with Access 2010, a new Access 2010 unit has been added to the Channel 9 Learning Center for Office 2010 . The new Building Solutions with Access 2010 Lab consists of 5 exercises...

  The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit requires a development environment to give you the full impact of the development experience which includes SharePoint 2010. There are many ways to go about setting up a Virtual Machine (VM) x-64 environment...

Certainly developing solutions to enhance Information Worker (IW) productivity is one of key value propositions for developing on Microsoft Office. But for those that are just checking out what these capabilities might be and need some direction on where...

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit content is designed to...

Today at PDC the general availability of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta was announced. You can download the beta from http://www.microsoft.com/2010 to get up and running. Be sure to read the Office 2010 Engineering blog announcing this for more details. For...

The Office 2010 Workshop is an all new developer training course to debut on Channel 9 today. The release of this course consists of 29, 5-18 minute video segments, with presentations and demos on Office 2010 Beta development. That’s around 4.5 hours...

Last week’s SharePoint Conference (SPC) was an amazing unveiling of all the investments that the product groups have made in Office and SharePoint 2010. These products, with their Beta version coming out soon, provide a powerful platform for developing...

For all those that have loved Microsoft Access over the years (and for those that have yet to discover it) one of the announcements today at the SharePoint 2010 Conference was about Access 2010 and Access Services on SharePoint. Think of it, Access databases...

will kick off on November 17th so now is the time to get registered . The $300 discount is still available until October 30th! This is going to be a great conference with tons of sessions to learn about the future of Microsoft’s developer platform, hands...