The following content items were published from 9/16/2007 to 9/30/2007:
Publishing Date
Title
Products
Authors
9/26/2007
Download: Download: 2007 Office Sample: imepad.h Header File This download provides the public imepad.h API for use by developers when customizing applications for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
2007 Microsoft Office System
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2003
Microsoft Office XP
Windows
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Server
Windows CE
Windows Server
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista Test
kenitaku
Download: Download: 2007 Office Sample: MSIME.h Header File This download provides the public msime.h header for use by developers when using IME's conversion engine for convert or reverse-convert the string, or accessing information of system and custom dictionary of IME. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
9/25/2007
How-To article: Visual How To: Creating Outlook 2007 Form Regions using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0) Learn how to create a Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 form region by using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (3.0).http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851471.aspx
Visual Studio Tools for Office (3.0)
Steve Hansen
How-To article: Visual How To: Changing Display Formats Programmatically for All Contacts in Outlook 2007 Create an add-in to change the FileAs property programmatically for all contacts in Outlook 2007. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756876.aspx
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Ken Getz
How-To article: Visual How To: Obtaining Folder Objects from Folder Paths in Outlook 2007 Create an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to navigate Outlook folders and find folders that contain specified data. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756875.aspx
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
How-To article: Visual How To: Creating Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007 Explore creating a custom Web Part that you can use to display the upcoming tasks for a specified project. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851478.aspx
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
Joel Krist
How-To article: Visual How To: Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007 Learn to create a SharePoint Server 2007 user profile by using the SharePoint UserProfileService Web service. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb847941.aspx
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
How-To article: Visual How To: Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Learn how to display custom fields in the Content Query Web Part by setting the CommonViewFields custom property and editing the default XSLT transformation used to render items. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb850574.aspx
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
9/20/2007
How-To article: Visual How To: Office Open XML Formats: Removing Comments from a Word 2007 Document Use Office Open XML Formats to remove comments programmatically from a Word 2007 document. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738371.aspx
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Visual Studio 2005
SDK: SDK: PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK Use the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK to help customize and integrate your own dashboard object extensions such as custom reports and data sources, wizards, and user interface extensions. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848116.aspx
PerformancePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Corporation
PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Business Rules Development Guide Get information about how to use PerformancePoint Planning to develop business rules that perform complex planning, budgeting, and forecasting, or financial operations such as consolidation. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb795339.aspx
9/18/2007
Technical article: Adding Drag-and-Drop Functionality using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Learn to build a simple Windows Forms application and a VSTO 2005 SE add-in for Excel 2007 to perform a drag operation from your custom application to Excel 2007.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb840032.aspx
Excel
Albert Raiani
Download: Download: Deploying Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager in a Remote Database Configuration Learn about installing and configuring a Business Contact Manager for Outlook database by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
sharc/BCMPM
Technical article: Advanced Server-Side Authentication for Data Connections in InfoPath 2007 Web-Based Forms Learn about several different approaches for authenticating cross-domain data connections from form templates deployed to InfoPath Forms Services, as part of either Forms Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2007. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787184.aspx
Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Mark Roberts
SDK: SDK: InfoPath 2007 Developer Reference Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service Built Using the Microsoft .NET Framework Learn about some helper classes built by using the Microsoft .NET Framework that make it easier to build query requests for the SharePoint Server Search Query Web service and more straightforward to handle the query responses. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb230129.aspx
Technical article: Animating Objects in Excel 2007 using the 3-D Animation Engine Learn about the 3-D Animation Engine tool, which demonstrates the new OfficeArt rendering platform in Excel 2007. Find out how you can use this tool to start programmatically manipulating three-dimensional shapes in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629413.aspx
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Jon Adams and Rod Chisholm
How-To article: Visual How To: Sending Appointments to an Outlook 2007 Calendar from an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Use Visual Studio 2005 to create an ASP.NET 2.0 Web site that can create and send an Internet Calendar appointment to add to an Outlook 2007 calendar. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb655909.aspx
How-To article: Visual How To: Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007 by Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office SE to create a custom Ribbon in Outlook 2007. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738406.aspx
Code sample: Sample: Excel 2007 Sample: Animating Objects in Excel 2007 Using the Animation Engine The 3-D Animation Engine tool enables you to apply three-dimensional animation and lighting effects to shapes in Excel 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
Jon Adams
How-To article: Visual How-To: Working with Data Programmatically in Visio 2007 Learn how to work with data in Visio 2007 to connect to an existing data source, link the data in the data source, and display the linked data graphically. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743267.aspx
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Saul Candib
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It's been about 10 months since we started publishing Office Visual How-tos (VHTs), which is a compound content type, mixing a short how-to article, code samples, and a video of that code sample in action. The wealth of this content type is that you can watch a quick video to visualize how a feature works and then you can read conceptual information and grab a code sample. We also provide a list of related resources for further reading and learning.
Here's a sample VHT: Setting Conditional Formatting in Excel 2007 and here's a pointer to a blog entry where I explained the project in detail. I am happy to share that we have published more than 100 VHTs. We have been lucky to have well-known MVPs and experts collaborate with us and contribute with some VHT. A few names come to mind: David Gerhardt, John Peltonen, Ken Getz, Patrick Tisseghem, Ted Pattison, Joel Krist, Steven Hansen, and many other Microsoft programmer writers and product team members.
Another interesting fact is that the VHT content plan attempted to cover most relevant developer features of the different 2007 Microsoft Office system products, servers, services, tools, and technologies. We worked very hard to cover as many MOSS, WSS, Office Core, Office Client, and VSTO code samples. I pulled some numbers from our editorial calendar this morning to track the distribution of available VHTs by product and here's how content looks like today:
The Office Developer How To Center provides a list of available VHT by title. Because we have so many articles to promote, it's getting hard to list all on the MSDN Office Developer Center. To help a bit with discoverability, I built a quick html image map to help you find VHTs by product. Just use the image below and click the product name to go to the MSDN Library node where we list all VHTs by product.
We are interested in getting your feedback and comments. You can rate the articles and send comments using the Click to Rate and Give Feedback link located at the top right corner of the MSDN Library. We have a system that helps us track comments and ratings for every technical article and content asset living under the Office Development node of the MSDN Library. We hope you find this content useful and if you find errors in code or broken links, please let us know so we can fix them! Feedback is always appreciated. In fact, here's a few nice comments for VHT content that we pulled last week:
Finally, some people would like to have the videos available in Zune and IPod format, so we will start looking into this soon.
If you are working with MOSS Enterprise Search, you should download the .NET Helper Classes for the MOSS Search Query Web Service. Callum Shillan is an MCS Solution Architect from the UK and he was very nice to share the helper classes he created with the community. You can find the .Net helpers for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service source code in CodePlex. Callum also wrote an MSDN article where he shows you how to use the helper classes.
The genesis for this article was an internal project that our team ran in the United Kingdom to expose information held in a series of our community sites maintained by our team leads and subject matter experts. To help the team responsible for the user interface, I created a few Microsoft .NET Framework classes that made it easier for them to fire queries into the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web service hosted on our main portal. These classes also made it more straightforward to handle the responses that the Web service returned.
If you want to learn more about MOSS and Enterprise Search, you should also check out the MSDN Enterprise Search Information Center and the following Office Visual How-tos created by Patrick Tisseghem: