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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...

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...

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...

Some time ago I blogged about How to: Uploading a File to a SharePoint Library Site from a Local Folder and How to: Magic with SharePoint 2003, uploading files using a Web service . Some people found these samples useful and some people asked if I could provide sample code that works with SharePoint...

I've spent the last few days pulling 2008 metrics for Office & SharePoint developer content. It's quite interesting to see what flavor of chocolates devs pick at the candy store . The Office System is an umbrella of products and technologies . Popular picks from the...

While reviewing traffic to some of our MSDN content, I noticed that the Office Visual How-tos we've published on the MSDN Library are getting lots of page views! Developers seem to like this content type since it provides a short article, code sample, and video. This content type provides quick demos...

Latest technologies offered to Web developers, such as ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, offer UI improvements and amazing interactive experiences for Web-based applications. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich...

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...

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 Visual How-tos just keep getting out there like popcorn. This time we published some more from Ken Getz, Joel Krist, and Ted Pattison. New VHTs include an interesting combination of Office products and technologies: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Word 2007 Visual Studio Tools for...

We have published 54/101 Office Visual How-tos ! We started with some topics related to client development and now we are starting to publish the WSS and MOSS topics. If you are getting started with MOSS and WSS 3.0, I strongly recommend that you take a look at the following series of VHTs: ...

Some bloggers and third-party sites compile and provide a set of links to resources related to a topic and some of them are really good. Mark Kruger created a very cool list of 2007 MOSS Resource Links (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) that he updates frequently and I enjoy looking at his list every...

The new Microsoft Office Fluent UI replaces the previous system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes with a simpler system optimized for efficiency and discoverability. The new UI, including the Office Fluent Ribbon, provides improved context menus, enhanced screen tips, a Mini toolbar, and keyboard...

Lucky me! I had the great opportunity to meet several of the Open XML developers at the Open XML workshop in Redmond last week. The workshop was quite interesting in terms of content and delivery. Tons of advanced samples related with WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, and more. The...

You probably read the MSDN Magazine article: Setting Word Document Properties the Office 2007 Way by Ken Getz. This was one of the first articles related to the Office Open XML Formats published by MSDN and it really helped me understand the Word document manipulation possibilites offered by the Office...

We have some documentation on Word and the Office Open XML Formats, but few documentation about Excel and PPT + the Office Open XML Formats. I am working with Joanna Bichsel and Mr. Ken Getz to get you all more samples that show you how to work with the System.IO.Packaging API to manipulate Excel workbooks...

Patrick Tisseghem beat me to it (you are so fast man), but I thought posting three blog entries in the same day was crazy. Today I will blog about a project that has kept us busy for a while: "The Office Visual How Tos." We know that the internet has changed the way in which developers learn about...