OPML: 70 Office Development Bloggers and Counting!

It all started with a few bloggers a little before Beta 2. People started blogging about the Ribbon, the cool ASP.NET 2.0 platform and WSS 3.0, Excel Services, the Office Open XML File Formats and InfoPath Forms Services. Lots of great features to build solutions using Office as a platform!

Office development blogs are quite active and inviting for developers trying to learn what's new with the Microsoft Office system and diving more into specific products and technologies. When all this started, I added RSS feeds every week to Outlook until it became just a joke to have so many bloggers added to my RSS feed. There's hundreds if not thousands of people blogging about Office development and every day new blogs are born. I built a new list of Office development bloggers and a few days before launch, my list adds up to 70!

Blog Name	RSSFeed
*#region / mads's thoughts /*	http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/rss.aspx
.NET4Office	http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/rss.aspx
[XaMaLa] - Le poste de travail, un gisement de productivitÃ© encore peu exploitÃ©	http://blogs.microsoft.fr/franckha/Rss.aspx
A discussion of what's new in Access 2007	http://blogs.msdn.com/access/rss.aspx
About OneNote	http://blogs.msdn.com/olya_veselova/rss.xml
Andrew May's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/rss.aspx
Andy Simonds Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/andy_simonds/rss.aspx
Arpan Shah's Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/rss.aspx
ArtLeo's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/artleo/rss.aspx
Bill Morein's Weblog	http://blogs.msdn.com/wmorein/rss.aspx
Brian Jones: Open XML Formats	http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/rss.aspx
Building Office Business Applications	http://blogs.msdn.com/joanna_bichsel/rss.xml
Chris Castillo's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/chcast/rss.aspx
Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/rss.aspx
Chris's unofficial Office Live developer blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/cbeiter/rss.aspx
Clint's Access blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/clintcovington/rss.aspx
Coding for Office Small Business Accounting	http://blogs.msdn.com/martha/rss.xml
Cum Grano Salis	http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/rss.aspx
doncampbell's weblog	http://blogs.msdn.com/doncampbell/rss.xml
Doug Mahugh	http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/rss.xml
Erika Ehrli	http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/rss.aspx
Evil Doctor PorkChop	http://evildoctorporkchop.spaces.live.com/feed.rss
Fabulous Adventures In Coding	http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/rss.aspx
frice's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/frice/rss.aspx
InfoPath Team Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/rss.aspx
Jan Tielens' Bloggings	http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/rss.aspx
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/rss.aspx
Joe Friend: Microsoft Office Word	http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/rss.aspx
John R. Durant's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/rss.aspx
Julie's Blog	http://blogs.officezealot.com/jkremer/Rss.aspx
Kevin Boske - Office Development	http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinboske/rss.aspx
Larry's Project Dev Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/lduff/rss.aspx
LauraJ's Weblog	http://blogs.msdn.com/lauraj/rss.xml
Microsoft Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12)	http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/rss.aspx
Microsoft Office PowerPoint	http://blogs.msdn.com/brendanb/rss.aspx
Microsoft Office Project 2007	http://blogs.msdn.com/project/rss.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/rss.aspx
Microsoft Small Business Applications	http://blogs.msdn.com/rajattaneja/rss.aspx
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System	http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/rss.aspx
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003	http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.aspx
MikeKelly's WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekelly/rss.aspx
Misha Shneerson	http://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/rss.aspx
Murray Sargent: Math in Office	http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/rss.xml
Office Rocker!	http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker/rss.xml
Office SharePoint Document Services (ECM)	http://blogs.msdn.com/roble/rss.aspx
On Microsoft Publisher and more	http://blogs.msdn.com/jeff_bell/rss.aspx
Outlook 12	http://blogs.msdn.com/willkennedy/rss.aspx
Owen Braun: OneNote 12	http://blogs.msdn.com/owen_braun/rss.aspx
Pashman's InfoPath Goldmine	http://blogs.msdn.com/timpash/rss.aspx
Patrick Smith: Office Programmability	http://blogs.msdn.com/patricksmith/rss.aspx
Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]	http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/Rss.aspx
Project Programmability	http://blogs.msdn.com/project_programmability/rss.xml
Project Server 201	http://www.projectserver201.blogspot.com/atom.xml
projectified	http://www.projectified.com/index.rdf
Rob Mauceri's FrontPage Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/rmauceri/rss.aspx
Ryan's Look at Outlook Programmability	http://blogs.msdn.com/rgregg/rss.aspx
search.subscribe.share in outlook 2007	http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/rss.aspx
SGriffin's [MSFT] WebLog	http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/rss.aspx
SharePoint Content and Resources	http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/rss.xml
SharePoint Products and Technologies - Pointing to Share the Knowledge	http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ldusolier/rss.aspx
SharePoint Unplugged	http://blogs.msdn.com/harsh/rss.aspx
Tasks and Time Management in Outlook	http://blogs.msdn.com/melissamacbeth/rss.aspx
The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog	http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/rss.xml
The wonder that is the Microsoft Office system	http://blogs.technet.com/stevemarsh/rss.xml
Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective	http://blogs.msdn.com/thirdoffive/rss.aspx
Visio 12 - Eric Rockey	http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_rockey/rss.aspx
Westin's Technical Log	http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/rss.aspx
Windows Sharepoint Services etc.	http://blogs.msdn.com/pjhough/rss.aspx
Wouter van Vugt	http://blogs.infosupport.com/wouterv/rss.aspx

When I started posting lists of bloggers someone suggested that I should build an OPML list of Office Development Bloggers, so I did. You can download the OPML file here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F2C2C7E9-5ABB-401B-AD32-FED03295B61D&displaylang=en

You can use Outlook, Windows Live or other OPML readers to open this file and add your favorite RSS feeds.

MSDN blogs: pending to add!

How could I leave them out: Kathleen McGrath, Paul Stubbs, and the new Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

Pranav's blog: You should check this one out, I hate me for not finding Pranav's blog before: This blog is all about Office Automation, VSTO, InfoPath and other programming stuff and the thing i believe on is "Real Stuff is Out Of The Box."

New blogs:

Make sure you check out Rob Barker's: Where in the "OBA" am I? and his first post.

I am sure there's more blogs out there that I didn't list here. If you have an Office development blog or know of great bloggers that talk about VSTO, SharePoint, WSS or anything else related with Office, please let me know so we add them to the list. You don't need to have an MSDN or TechNet blog, you only need to be passionate about development with Office products and technologies. The list keeps growing every day.

Community blogs: pending to add!