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I spent the last couple months working with a couple different SharePoint teams putting together this new learning experiences, so I wanted to devote a special blog entry for this two projects. Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Last October we released a Getting Started training series on MSDN...

Oh my! The day is finally here! We have been working for months on producing and releasing technical content that matters to developers. So many steps and multiple people at Microsoft and the developer community have contributed heavily to the Office and SharePoint 2010 launch. Today is the happy day...

I uploaded a cool Word 2010 video to our Facebook group and people seemed to like it. Roganov Ivan made this request: “Only one video? I want more! 2010!” Done deal! We have about 20 more Office 2010 and about 30 SharePoint 2010 in the works now. Some more went live recently and were published...

I’ve been incredibly passionate about Open XML since it’s early beginnings. I remember back in the day I was very excited about the possibility of generating .NET server-side Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. I also had the opportunity to manage the Open XML Format SDK 1.0 documentation release...

Some developers asked if we could publish some SPC videos and slide decks after the conference on MSDN. While we can’t publish all the conference content, we were able to cherry pick most popular sessions and publish a selection of most popular Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 develop SPC videos and slide...

Someone recently asked me (in Twitter) if I was keeping some nice stories in draft and waiting for things to go live to push the “publish” button in my blog, Twitter, and Facebook. The answer is yes! I am keeping a lot in draft mode. This is why I keep saying that this are exciting times for Office and...

The following RSS feeds are now live with headlines from July 1, 2009 to February 19, 2010. The feeds include headlines for all of the Office and SharePoint Getting Started content, as well as the Channel 9 learning courses for SharePoint and Office. MSDN: Microsoft Office Developer Center http...

The Office Product Marketing group has released a new Silverlight-based training set to introduce you to developer investments in 2010 including VBA, Fluent UI, and the Office Backstage. The app was released yesterday to MSDN and you can access it from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/resources...

It’s been an exciting week with all the recent announcements at PDC. Today, at PDC we announced the availability of our public Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Betas . Lots of developers from the community who have been monitoring the new developer investments on Office 2010 can start creating solutions...

It’s always hard to stay away from blogging when there’s so many new things to share and talk about. Today at the SharePoint Developer Conference Keynote, Jeff Teper talked about SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 features for developers and IT professionals. This is the time to start to blog more about...

I know it’s late at night, but I couldn’t resist. The MSDN Office, SharePoint, and VSTO Developer Center are blue now and match the super cool new MSDN branding and experience. Go take a look and enjoy: Office Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx SharePoint...

It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to blog. When I am quiet it usually means I am up to something :). Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 This are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers. While we have released some interesting news about Office 2010 and SharePoint...

Zeyad Rajabi announced this week the availability of the new Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP . As mentioned by Zeyad, changes to this CTP include: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility support General improvements based on your feedback If you are into Open...

We have some great news for Office and SharePoint developers. We launched this morning a new section on the MSDN Office Developer Center where you can find Office and SharePoint books that matter to developers. We also provide free book chapters! MSDN Office Developer Bookstore Here’s the set of...

For all of those fans of Open XML and followers of updates done to the Open XML Format SDK 2.0, one more happy day has arrived. The Office Client Developer Content team and the Open XML SDK product team released the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 April CTP on MSDN! Zeyad has a great blog post where he explains...

I’ve been experimenting with Twitter for the last couple of months and I am quite addicted to it now. I love the fact that you can get real time news and chat with so many people from the community. SharePointDev , emilysc , ninar ,and ricalo have been my Twitter mentors and got me deep into the addiction...

It's cold and raining here in Redmond. Perfect weather for writing a blog entry. Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map Andrew May is a content publishing manager for WSS developer content. He is very passionate about Workflow and this week he created a new workflow development resources...

New Reference Documentation The big news is an offering for COM developers: the long-awaited Outlook 2007 Messaging API went live today. This is an update to the old Messaging API last published several years ago. Outlook 2007 Messaging API (MAPI) Reference describes how to create Outlook 2007 items...

Time's been passing. Meanwhile, we have a slug (bucketful? melange) of interesting new content out there. For Office client developers, we have a couple of important updates. One is to Andrew Whitechapel's popular article: Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.3...

It's great to get back into the publishing groove. Most of us over here, in "Office and SharePoint land" have been working for months to also publish Interoperability content to go along our traditional developer offering. You can access that content on MSDN Online, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

As the managing editor for the Office Developer Center, I spend a lot of time trying to determine effective search optimization strategies to help our content get discovered by search crawlers or robots. My focus is generally on the big Internet search engines, but I know that this can be even more critical...

We are glad to announce that the Open XML Format SDK April CTP is available! You can download the new SDK from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en You can also find and online version of the SDK on the MSDN Library...

I owe you the list of content published last month, so here it is! Publishing Date Title Products Authors 10/30/2007 Technical article: Deploying Solutions for 2007 Office System with ClickOnce Using Visual Studio Tools for Office (3.0...

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...

RSS feeds changed the strategy that lots of people use to learn about new things. As developers we are faced with a bulk load of emerging software development technologies and products and sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the cool things you can do. RSS feeds help you discover the latest news...