Erika Ehrli - Adventures with Office Products & Technologies

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training live on TechNet!

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:18:28 GMT

We’ve released a few popular training sets on MSDN and TechNet including:

This week we also released a SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence training course.

View the course: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126809

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) skills in this training course. This course teaches how to use SharePoint Server 2010 as your BI platform and covers the following topics: Business Intelligence Overview, Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint 2010, and PowerPivot for SharePoint Server 2010. The content is cross referenced with available Advanced IT Pro training (Ignite) per module.

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites Training

View the course: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126810

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites skills in this training course. This course covers a SharePoint Server 2010 Composites overview and all of these aspects for SharePoint Server 2010: Access Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Workflows in SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services, and SharePoint BI and Composites Service Application Configuration.

Emily Schroeder, our SharePoint Tech Center site manager, also launched two new BI Scenarios:

Live on the BI Scenarios hub home: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/default

Enjoy!

Office 2010 – 101 Code Samples (VBA) released! + Coming soon, SharePoint 2010 – 101 Code Samples: Request for code sample ideas

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:18:44 GMT

A few years ago I learned quite a few tricks when I downloaded the C# and VB.NET 101 Code Sample projects. Who has not used many of these code samples in VS projects?

Code samples always come handy. While videos and tech articles are always great and go deeper to explore new technologies, few things can beat LOTS of free code samples. I am trying to catch-up with LINQ and lately I’ve been experimenting with the 101 LINQ Code Samples.

Wouldn’t it be great to provide a set of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 code samples?

Of course! For Office/SP developers or for developers willing to explore coding possibilities with Office 2010, here’s something you may find useful.

We just released a set of Office 2010 – 101 Code Samples in VBA. We’ve compiled a good collection of Excel 2010, Office 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Word 2010 most popular samples and we’ve published them both as a packaged download and also as multiple individual code sample gallery pages where you can easily download individual code samples, copy paste, rate, and share with your friends.

Each code sample consists of approximately 5 to 50 lines of code demonstrating a distinct feature or feature set in VBA. Each sample also includes comments describing the sample, and setup code so that you can run the code with expected results or the comments will explain how to set up the environment so that the sample code runs.

We are already working on a set of SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples. This package will provide a set of code samples including CSOM, SharePoint Online, REST, Azure, Web services and other most popular SharePoint 2010 code samples. This time we are extending an invitation to the community to request code sample ideas. What is that SharePoint 2010 code sample you’ve always wanted?

If you have suggestions for SharePoint 2010 code samples, or more Office 2010 code samples, you can leave a comment on this post or comment @ the SharePoint Developer blog for SharePoint 2010 code samples.

Enjoy!

Another opportunity to blog & next generation of Office developer and ITPro content

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:00:00 GMT

I’ve been gone for a while and I missed blogging so much!

I had a baby last February and I enjoyed five wonderful months on maternity leave with my little one.

It’s great to be back @ work and I am super excited about the upcoming Office release.

This time I will have the great opportunity to get involved with Office ITPro content as well. My role changed a little bit and my team now owns release & publishing of technical content related to Office products & technologies on MSDN and TechNet.

My team works with multiple technical product content teams @ Microsoft and we release content for Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and Office 365 for developers and IT professionals. We also manage a few MSDN and TechNet Center sites for these technologies including:

TechNet Office TechCenter
TechNet SharePoint Products TechCenter
TechNet Exchange Center
TechNet Lync Developer Center
TechNet Project Server
TechNet Enterprise Search TechCenter
TechNet SharePoint Server TechCenter (legacy)
TechNet Windows SharePoint Services TechCenter (legacy)
TechNet PerformancePoint Server TechCenter (legacy)
TechNet Project Portfolio Server TechCenter(legacy)

We also manage a few pages under:

There’s little I can share about the upcoming Office release at this point, but I can tell you I believe this will be one of the most exciting releases I’ve been involved with. I am dying to start creating and releasing content including getting started, what’s new, code samples, roadmaps, how tos, videos, and many others.

Developers and IT pros will have broader opportunities and possibilities thanks to many of the cool features and changes introduced in the next release.

I will be blogging more actively moving forward and will continue to share news related to Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync technical content for developers and IT professionals as soon as we get close to Beta and RTM.

New SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Developer Training on MSDN!

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:17:13 GMT

After a few months of hiding in my office working on some cool new projects, I come out of my shell with exciting news.

We just released a new SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Training that you can find at the MSDN SharePoint Developer Center!

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search training course provides a series of hands-on labs, presentations, and videos that demonstrate how to enable high-end enterprise search with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Learn about crawling and indexing content and defining the user experience. By completing these modules, you can build most of the Contoso Research Demo and gain a broad understanding of how to apply these design principles to your site.

This training set has 15 lessons with lots of videos, hands-on lab document downloads, quiz questions and links to other related resources.

A similar set is coming soon on TechNet

Enjoy!

We are hiring!

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:05:00 GMT

I get to write my first post on the new MSDN blog platform about a new open position in my group. My manager posted this position at the Microsoft Career site and wanted to share details in my blog in case you are interested.

Content Publishing Manager 2(720752 -External)

Job Category: Software Engineering: Content Publishing
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 720752 18116
Division: Microsoft Business Division

We are looking for an experienced content manager who will manage a team of experienced programmer writers and editors for a set of Office productivity applications, used by millions of developers: Excel, Access, Outlook, Word, InfoPath, and more!
We’ve just shipped Office 2010. Your first priority will be to lead your team in developing all the high value content your team will deliver through our MSDN online presence (http://msdn.microsoft.com/office). We need your ideas, experience, creative energy, and persistence to continue to improve our content and connect with customers.

You will manage your own content acquisition budget, as well as collaborate with our partners in marketing to author or acquire content to support the Office 2010 launch. Think code samples, videos, walk-throughs, and scenario-based developer content!
The candidate is expected to provide overall direction and team leadership, documentation expertise, creativity, and a drive for results. You will be developing, collaborating on, and managing cross-product and cross-team projects. Armed with metrics data from Office.com and MSDN, as well as other sources of data, you will be responsible for ensuring the content meets the business needs of our customers and the strategic goals of the product team and of Microsoft. You will also collaborate with all parties to define the overall content strategy for your continuous publishing efforts.

You will also be responsible for maintaining a high level of morale in the team and developing people. You and your team will be working in the context of a dynamic group with high morale and continual healthy challenges, along with countless opportunities to help customers in new ways.

Recommended qualifications and experience:
- Experience with COM and VBA -- understanding of the Office object models is strongly preferred
- Industry experience with managed code: Visual Studio has long provided a way to develop Office solutions from managed code. Ideal candidates would have experience with COM Interop.
- Your exposure to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a bonus.
- Awareness of OpenXML: our team also delivers the developer content for the OpenXML SDK v2, and we’re constantly evolving this content set. Let’s dig deeper to learn what adopters of this technology are experiencing.
- SharePoint understanding is required: all client applications have ties to SharePoint and we need to develop more and more content that leads developers to leverage those ties.
- Because our COM content requires quite a lot of engineering to build, familiarity with SQL Server and XML/XSLT is a definite asset.

I’ve been working on this team for five years and I can say it’s been an exciting ride to work on a group of talented writers and editors who provide developer content on MSDN for Office, SharePoint, and now UC and Exchange.

You can find the job description and apply to the job here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=18116&jlang=EN

MSDN: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:57:00 GMT

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 SharePoint that includes a Silverlight application that displays 10 different SharePoint 2010 training modules with over 60 videos, more than 40 code snippets, 10 hands-on labs in both C# and VB, and fun quiz questions for each module. We’ve been monitoring traffic to this pages and we know this content set turned out to be quite popular, so we worked on a “v2” for launch.

What’s new in “V2” of Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

Everything! All content was updated to work with RTM bits.

All videos were re-recorded and republished, all HOLs were recreated, and there’s three more new additions to this set:

Quick Notes: Frank Rice created a series of Quick Start like articles on MSDN. Each one of the Quick Notes maps to a training module. We have five now and we will add more in the next following weeks.
Virtual labs: Currently, module 1, module 6, and module 8 have virtual labs that you can launch through a button.
Silverlight app “v2”: This control has evolved and we included some new features to improve the experience. Some of this new features include dynamic video and thumbnail rendering via Bing Web services, list view of videos p/modules, now playing info, and many other visual improvements. Thank you to everyone who has sent feedback about this training control. We have been using it on different projects and we will continue to use it more on MSDN.

We also added page rating and comments controls so you can send feedback and comment on modules and social media links so you can share the links to the training.

We all owe this amazing training series to Paul Andrew who contributed to this massive amount of content for SharePoint developers.

Here are links to all modules:

Module 1: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Module 2: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010

Module 3: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010

Module 4: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs

Module 5: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs

Module 6: Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

Module 7: Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Module 8: Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Module 9: Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Module 10: Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training

I mentioned in my previous blog entry that if you are looking for black-belt training on SharePoint 2010 development, this is it! This training set includes 1-4 lessons p/track. All content was created by Vesa Juvonen a Microsoft MCS Principal Consultant and by Todd Carter, a Microsoft Principal Premier Field Engineer. You can watch lessons on our pages or download them for watching them later. These are longer videos, about 1 hour or so each, so you can download the videos as well. You can also get all the PowerPoint downloads for each lesson and coming soon we will enable virtual labs too!

SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training

For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a business collaboration platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training offers technical training as self-paced modules and hosted labs for SharePoint 2007 professionals who want to upgrade their skills to SharePoint 2010.

1 | Developer Roadmap and Tools for SharePoint 2010

This module gives an overview of the SharePoint 2010 technical platform and the tools that are available for customizing a SharePoint installation. It also covers a new claims-based authentication option and Windows PowerShell improvements.

2 | Core Development in SharePoint 2010

This module covers core development topics that are available in SharePoint 2010.

3 | User Interfaces and Lists in SharePoint 2010

This module covers the new user experience in SharePoint 2010 and how you can use these new capabilities in your customizations. We also discuss improvements in list handling, including list relationships and new form-rending options, including InfoPath forms.

4 | Data Access in Technologies in SharePoint 2010

This module presents new data access technologies in SharePoint 2010. There are many new ways to manipulate information in SharePoint. These technologies make development and integration more straight forward and can help increase developer productivity.

5 | Composite Solutions in SharePoint 2010

This module presents composite capabilities that are available in SharePoint 2010. There are many different capabilities, which can be combined together to provide desired functionalities.

6 | Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint 2010

This module presents new capabilities in Enterprise Content Management.

7 | Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010

This module presents the Search capabilities that are available in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 provides a flexible and robust search platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet deployments. You can also further enhance the search experience with FAST ESP.

8 | Business Intelligence SharePoint 2010

This module presents business intelligence capabilities in SharePoint 2010. There are improvements in this area to help build business intelligence dashboards, which can be used to expose relevant information for business users in a meaningful way.

9 | Communities in SharePoint 2010

This module presents information about communities in SharePoint 2010.

10 | Development Life Cycle for SharePoint 2010

This module presents information about customized life cycle management in SharePoint 2010. In the first lesson, we cover models and considerations for when customizations are upgraded from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. In the following lesson, we cover life cycle management for customizations in SharePoint 2010. We provide guidance about how to upgrade customizations that are already deployed and how to update previously created customizations to reflect changes.

We also released a twin training set for IT Pros with 9 additional tracks: SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training

Lowband version

We realize some of you are not using Silverlight so we also created a lowband version with pointers to all lesson videos and PPTX downloads at the bottom of the pages.

Finally, I’d like to mention that we are currently experiencing a massive amount of traffic to this pages and I’ve noticed this error on random occasions:

If you happen to get it, you can refresh the page and you should be able to get all the videos. Each module in a course uses a random MSN/Bing video server to spread the load and because of the high volume of traffic we are currently getting to this videos, you may get this error. You should be able to access all the content and videos after a refresh. If you have not enabled Silverlight or if you are unable to get the videos from the MSN/Bing server at any given time, you can still access all content from the lowband version at the bottom of the pages.

More training on Channel 9

You can also find developer training courses for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on Channel 9:

For Office: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b90fadab-f4f9-4452-aa61-ed7bd5d8111e&displayLang=en

For SharePoint: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83a80a0f-0906-4d7d-98e1-3dd6f58ff059&displayLang=en

The RTM training courses are live here:

For Office: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Office2010/

For SharePoint: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

Send your feedback

A lot of work went into all training sets, from all the content creation, to the publishing of all the multiple pieces that make this training sets. I think it’s amazing that we have all this content on Channel 9, MSDN and TechNet at Launch time.

I hope you like this content set and please leave us feedback on the comments section of the pages or on this blog post.

Enjoy!

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Launch: A Summary of Technical Content that Matters to Developers

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:30:00 GMT

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 when we get to take it all live.

Many of you enjoyed the content we released during Beta, so we updated most of it and created more for Launch.

I realize each one of this projects deserves a blog entry, but since you all can’t wait to know about the recently released content, here goes my summary of technical content for developers that we just published on MSDN. This should matter to everyone interested in taking a deep dive into developing solutions with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Office 2010

Updated MSDN Office Developer Center

MSDN Office Developer Center

Find quick links to developer content for Office 2010 and 2007 Microsoft Office system products and technologies.

We updated our top pages and added links to a lot of Office 2010 content that we just published. Don’t miss product specific content from the following pages:

Access Developer Center

Excel Developer Center

InfoPath Developer Center

Office Fluent User Interface Developer Center

Open XML Developer Center

Outlook Developer Center

Project Developer Center

Visio Developer Center

Word Developer Center

Updated Office 2010 Developer Center

Office 2010 Developer Center

This page points you to Office 2010 innovations that matter to developers and features Office 2010 and recently published content.

Get Started Developing with Office 2010

Developing with Office 2010

Find application compatibility tools, how-to videos, articles, references, and more in this getting started training.

Office 2010 is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. This seven modules initiatives show you how to get started developing with Office 2010 and present multiple videos including new Office 2010 Visual How-tos!

Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010

Develop Solutions for Microsoft Office 2010

Visual Studio 2010 includes new project templates for creating solutions that target both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Office 2010. Beth Massi and I worked on a series of Video How-tos for Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

What’s New in Office 2010?

Office 2010 Product Guides

Download the product guides for your favorite Microsoft Office programs. The guides were created by our Office MVPs. Each guide provides an at-a-glance overview, a closer look at many new and improved features, and instructions to help you find the features you want quickly and easily:

Thanks Stephanie Krieger!

SharePoint 2010

Improved MSDN SharePoint Developer Center

MSDN SharePoint Developer Center

Find quick links to developer content for SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

We used to publish all the WSS 3.0 on this site. The SharePoint documentation teams worked on revamping the MSDN SharePoint Developer Center and turned it into the new home for SharePoint 2010 content as well. Here’s a few pages you should not miss:

Products
Learn
Downloads
Resource Centers
My personal favorite: Developer Top 10 Resource Center. Thank you Randall!

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

Are you an ASP.NET developer who is ready to learn more about SharePoint 2010? Visit the Getting Started page to view screencasts and hands-on labs about working with SharePoint 2010 developer features that are familiar to ASP.NET developers, such as web parts and workflow.

Use these 10 modules to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010. We updated all the videos, hands-on labs, and added virtual labs and developer quick notes for some modules in this training. We also updated the Silverlight training control that displays all this content and enabled comments and social media sharing on our pages.

SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training

SharePoint Advanced Developer Training

If you are looking for black-belt content, this is it! For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a business collaboration platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training offers technical training as self-paced modules and hosted labs for SharePoint 2007 professionals who want to upgrade their skills to SharePoint 2010. You can find a similar training for ITPros here: SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training

SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 includes new project templates for creating solutions that target SharePoint 2010 Solutions. Download a Visual Studio 2010 trial. Learn about SharePoint project creation, debugging, and solution deployment.

Beth Massi and I worked on a series of Video How-tos for SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

Finally, don’t miss the Launch Events!

Office 2010 Launch Events

Watch the keynote, join the virtual launch conversation, and participate in on-demand sessions for the global launch on May 12, starting at 11 a.m. EDT.

Office 2010 How-Do I Videos for Developers

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:51:00 GMT

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 to the MSN/Bing platform. You can find our recently published videos here:

Note: Videos from MSN/BING are streamed and video quality is adjusted after a few seconds depending on your bandwidth. Eric White has a post that talks about this in more detail.

Soon you will be able to find most of this videos featured at the MSDN Office Developer Center, the MSDN SharePoint Developer Center, and our new Facebook fan page.

Enjoy!

Open XML SDK 2.0 RTM is live! Find Articles, Videos, Code Samples, and Resources on MSDN

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

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, design a poster, and I also wrote for a few years a series of blog posts and MSDN technical articles about Open XML, the SDK, and how to use it.

Since then, the Open XML Format SDK has evolved significantly proving us a .NET API, documentation, and tools to help us simplify our task of generating documents programmatically.

What is the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office?

The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 is a superset of the Open XML SDK 1.0. In addition to the functionality provided by the Open XML SDK 1.0, it leverages.NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and provides classes to construct and query the contents of parts within a package. You can use functional construction for composing documents, and LINQ queries for extracting information from documents.

The SDK is a collection of classes that let developers create and manipulate Open XML documents – documents that adhere to the Office Open XML File Formats Standard. Because the SDK provides an application program interface that lets developers manipulate Open XML documents directly, they can do so without the need for the Office client products themselves in both client and server operating environments.

Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office offers a number of tools and resources to improve programmatic document processing thus making a task of the developer more efficient. The SDK also carries an interoperability improvements for open XML implementers as well as it is designed to let Open XML developers build high performance client-side or server-side solutions that handle complex operations using only a small amount of program code.

Microsoft has released an RTM version of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office today. If you haven’t already, you can download it and find the online documentation versions here:

	Download the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office This download provides strongly typed part and content classes for use with Open XML documents. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6e744e5-36e9-45f5-8d8c-331df206e0d0
	MSDN Online version of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office This reference provides strongly typed part and content classes to manipulate Open XML documents. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854(office.14).aspx

Distribution and requirement notes

Open XML SDK 2.0 is freely redistributable by any solution provider implementing the formats.

Office applications are not required to use the Open XML SDK 2.0, and no software purchase is required. Developers can freely use the Open XML SDK to build document processing solutions for Microsoft Office files and for other implementations of the IS29500 standard.

Open XML content on MSDN

I want to use the remainder of this post to provide you all with a run down of most popular Open XML programmability content and detailed links to MSDN Developer Portal pages where you can find lots of articles, videos, and code snippets.

First, the Open XML Developer Center on MSDN provides you with a mix of community content, articles, learning, getting started, and technical content categorized by scenarios and technologies. Here are detailed links to all our top level entry pages:

Scenarios
Technologies
| OPC
| Excel
| PowerPoint
| Word
Community

Second, take a look at our cool Open XML Developer Center on MSDN Silverlight rotator where you can find Open XML Essential resources including latest news about the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office and community resources.

Next, I would like to suggest that you watch our recently published Deep Dive Open XML and the Open XML SDK SharePoint Conference session.

Using Open XML 2.0 you can create and edit documents on the server without needing to resort to COM-based Office automation. This session presents a basic understanding of how to use Open XML 2.0 for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It also describes how to use the Open XML SDK and other various tools to make your development life easier. This session provides everything you need to start building document automation processes.

Finally, if you want to take a deep dive into Open XML technical content, here’s a detailed list of most popular MSDN content:

Book chapter:

Book Excerpt: Chapter 22: Office Open XML Essentials

Code samples:

CG: Sample: Word 2007 Sample: Using Open XML to Improve Automation Performance in Word 2010 for Large Amounts of Data

Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Building a Server-Side Document Generation Solution Using the Open XML Object Model

Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Manipulating Office Open XML Format Files

Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Using the Office Open XML Formats to Support Electronic Health Records Portability and Health Industry Standards

CG: Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Introducing the Open XML Format External File Converter for Microsoft Office

CG: Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Creating Documents by Using the Open XML Format SDK 2.0

CG: Sample: 2007 Office Sample: Open XML File Formats Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Columns:

OfficeTalk: Creating Form Letters in Word by Using Bookmarks and Office Open XML Files

OfficeTalk: Working with In-Memory Open XML Documents

OfficeTalk: Programmatically Update Multiple External Data Connections in Excel 2007 by Using Open XML

Downloads:

Download: SharePoint 2010 Presentation: Deep Dive into Open XML 2.0 and the Open XML SDK 2.0

Download: 2007 Office Presentations: Open XML Training Presentations

Download: 2007 Office System Document: Open XML Developer Map

Visual How-tos (how-to article + video + code sample):

Visual How To: Building Word 2007 Documents Using Office Open XML Formats

Visual How To: Embedding Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Adding Images to Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Generating Documents with Headers and Footers in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Merging Simple Content from Excel 2007 Workbooks and Worksheets by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Merging PowerPoint 2007 Decks Together by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 Classes Versus Using .Net XML Services

Visual How To: Retrieving Content from Different Parts: Explicit or Implicit Relationships in the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Searching for Content in Word 2007 Documents by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Generating a Word 2007 Document by Using PowerTools for Open XML and Windows PowerShell

Visual How To: Creating a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation from a Folder of Images by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How-To: Using XSLT and Open XML to Create a Word 2007 Document

Visual How To: Using XSLT and Open XML to Create a Word 2007 Document

Visual How To: Displaying Open XML Spreadsheet Tables in the Browser Using Silverlight

Technical articles:

Creating Valid Open XML Documents by Using the Validation Tools in the Open XML Format SDK

Introducing the Office (2007) Open XML File Formats

Using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Managed Client Object Model with the Open XML SDK 2.0

Accepting Revisions in Open XML Word-Processing Documents

Working with Numbered Lists in Open XML WordprocessingML

Introducing the Open XML Format External File Converter for 2007 Office System SP2

Editing Data in an Excel 2007 Open XML File with VBA

Creating Documents by Using the Open XML Format SDK Version 2.0 CTP (Part 1 of 3)

Creating Documents by Using the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 CTP (Part 2 of 3)

Creating Documents by Using the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 CTP (Part 3 of 3)

Using Office Open XML to Save Time Without Writing Code

Taking the 2007 Office System Further with VBA and Open XML Formats

Using Office Open XML to Customize Document Formatting in the 2007 Office System

Creating Business Applications by Using Excel Services and Office Open XML Formats

Creating a Simple Search and Replace Utility for Word 2007 Open XML Format Documents

Using Office Open XML Formats to Support Electronic Health Records Portability and Health Industry Standards

Creating Document Themes with the Office Open XML Formats

Inserting Repeating Data Items into a Word 2007 Table by Using the Open XML API

Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions Using the Open XML Object Model (Part 1 of 2)

Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions Using the Open XML Object Model (Part 2 of 2)

Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Format API (Part 1 of 3)

Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Format API (Part 2 of 3)

Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Format API (Part 3 of 3)

Manipulating Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 Files with the Open XML Format API (Part 1 of 2)

Manipulating Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 Files with the Open XML Format API (Part 2 of 2)

Open XML Bloggers

The cherry on the pie: I also want to provide you links to Microsoft blogs where you can find more news about the latest release of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office:

Enjoy the RTM version of the SDK and have fun with your document generation scenarios and solutions.

SharePoint Conference 2009 Developer Videos and Slide Decks on MSDN

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:48:00 GMT

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 decks.

Here’s our selection of most popular sessions:

Office 2010 Videos | SharePoint Conference 2009

Office 2010 has many new developer oriented features. As a Microsoft Office developer, you can create highly refined user experiences that reduce complexity for users and make them instantly more productive. The following five videos represent a selection of most popular Office developer track sessions from the SharePoint Conference 2009.

What's New in Office 2010 for Developers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ff436077.aspx
Access Web Databases: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ff436079.aspx
Excel and Excel Services: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ff436080.aspx
Backstage View and Ribbon: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ff436081.aspx
Open XML and the Open XML SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ff436082.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Videos | SharePoint Conference 2009

SharePoint 2010 has many new developer oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of Microsoft SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive, and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. The following five videos represent a selection of most popular SharePoint developer track sessions from the SharePoint Conference 2009.

SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff462045.aspx
SharePoint 2010 UI Features: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff462046.aspx
Visual Studio | SharePoint Tools: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff462049.aspx
Business Connectivity Services: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff462047.aspx
REST and LINQ | SharePoint 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff462048.aspx

Enjoy!

MSDN Office and SharePoint Developer Centers are wearing a new skin!

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:12:00 GMT

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 SharePoint developers.

There’s few things for Microsoft people that bring more happiness than approaching RTM and start talking. As we get closer to that day, our team decided to start releasing new content and improved experiences for MSDN sites.

Today I want to share that a few minutes ago we re-launched the MSDN Office Developer Center and the MSDN SharePoint Developer Center with a new skin that matches our Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 branding.

This is the first time that Office and SharePoint MSDN sites blend with the product brand. Although this is only a visual update, it sets an exciting new look as we prepare for RTM.

Take a look yourself and see the nice difference made possible thanks to our new branded skin.

Who said developers don’t like pretty?

Enjoy!

MSDN Office and SharePoint in Facebook and Twitter

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:10:00 GMT

Our social media community is growing and we want to provide better support and more features to our followers. We are moving from a Facebook Group to a Facebook Fan Page.

This will allow us to provide more frequent updates including news to developer content released weekly.

Please follow us and become a fan of MSDN Office and SharePoint Developer Centers in Facebook.

We'll be closing down the group, so please become a fan of our page http://www.facebook.com/pages/MSDN-Office-and-SharePoint-Developer-Centers/321737938338 and tell your friends.

You can also find us in Twitter here: http://twitter.com/msdn_office

Office and SharePoint 2010 Developer: RSS Feeds

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:27:00 GMT

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://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/office/rss.xml

MSDN: Microsoft Office 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/office/rss2010.xml

MSDN Office: Community Submitted Content

http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/office/communitycontent.xml

MSDN: Microsoft Office Developer Center - Video

http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/office/video.xml

MSDN: Microsoft SharePoint Developer Portal

http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss.xml

MSDN: Microsoft SharePoint 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss2010.xml

And here’s a monthly recap of MSDN Office and SharePoint content published, with a spike in October and November:

The feeds will be dynamically pulled into multiple MSDN Developer Centers, as well as serve as the baseline for our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

Subscribe to this feeds and keep up with all the latest developer news about Office and SharePoint 2010.

Extending the Outlook Social Connector

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:02:00 GMT

I am one of those persons who has 25 apps running at the same time. I always have multiple instances of Explorer, VS, Office docs, and other apps running at all times. The one app I never close and I frequently visit is Outlook.

One of the neat new additions to Outlook 2010 is the the Outlook Social Connector (OSC). The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector is an add-in that surfaces social network data including friends, profiles, activities, and status information from social networks in Microsoft Outlook.

I really like the idea of bringing a lot of updates from multiple social networks sites where I have multiple personal and MSDN Office accounts to the one app where I spend a great deal of my day: Outlook.

Microsoft announced yesterday the availability of the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector (OSC) Beta (February Update) and a refresh about partnering with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace.

You can download the latest version of the Outlook Social Connector from the Microsoft Download Center. Please be sure to read the detailed instructions and if necessary remove the earlier Outlook Social Connector Beta. (More details are here)

What’s more cool about the Outlook Social Connector is that you can extend it. In addition to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Myspace providers, you’ll also be able to write your own.

This diagram shows the Outlook Social Connector provider architecture:

If you are a developer and you are interested in extending the Outlook Social Connector, I recommend that you check this blogs, articles, and resources:

MSDN article: Developing an Outlook Social Connector Provider: This article discusses the interfaces that a Microsoft Outlook Social Connector provider (OSC provider) must implement. The OSC provider extensibility interfaces provide a way for disparate social networks to show friend, activity, and relationship information in Outlook. An OSC provider component must implement the ISocialProvider, ISocialSession, ISocialProfile, and ISocialPerson interfaces. These interfaces expose methods and properties that allow the OSC to communicate with a social network independently of the APIs provided by the social network.
Download sample code: ODC Provider Templates: Outlook Sample: Outlook Social Connector Provider: This project contains a sample Outlook Social Connector provider and several provider templates (in C++, C#, and Visual Basic) for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
Blog: Angela Chu-Hatoun (WONG) has a great blog post oriented not so much for the end user but for the developer who might want to develop an OSC provider for a social network site.
Blog: Outlook Team blog: Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector

Additionally, as mentioned by Stephen Griffin, later on the Outlook team will be shipping the OSC as an add-in for Outlook 2007 and 2003, so you can get all that social goodness even if you’re not yet on Outlook 2010!

New: Office Developer Atlas

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:28:00 GMT

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/msdn/en-us/office/media/Atlas/Default.html

I’ll update this post with a link to an MSDN Dev Center landing page with more info as soon as it’s live.

In the meantime, here’s more info cross-posted from John Durant’s blog:

The Office Developer Atlas interactive training tool (built using Silverlight technology) is a great way for you to come up to speed on what developing productivity solutions with Office is all about. We've called it an atlas because it's designed to give you a series of training segments that help you orient yourself in the world of Office development.

The first three segments that we have included in the initial release of Office Developer Atlas include:

1) Making users instantly productive through VBA

2) The Microsoft Office Backstage view

3) The Microsoft Office Fluent UI (Ribbon)

In each section, you'll find a short explanatory video, an example that demonstrates the kinds of solutions you can build with the targeted technology, and links to rich content on how to convert your awareness to technical skill. Here are a couple more screenshots:

We'll be adding more modules to the training environment, and all you need is a Web browser to start using it. Enjoy, and please send your feedback and ideas for more training modules.

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Blogs of Notice

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:24:00 GMT

Blogs are super fun! Many product teams for Office and SharePoint are blogging about new features added to the 2010 release.

Here’s some blogs I recommend following:

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        <outline text="Arpan Shaw" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/rss.xml" />
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Download this OPML

You can easily download and import this OPML to Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010:

Also, if you are interested, here’s a previous post with pointers to RSS feeds for Office and SharePoint developers.

What’s New for Developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:38:00 GMT

The upcoming release of Office and SharePoint offers a wealth of interesting new scenarios and solutions that can be built thanks to new features and improvements added to different Office and SharePoint products and technologies. There’s more possibilities to integrate Office and SharePoint to build rich client-server solutions using tools such as Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath 2010, and Access 2010.

Some of you already had an opportunity to play with the Betas and write code, read lots of blogs, twitter feeds, and some MSDN articles and videos. Some others are eager to get the final release to start building solutions and are already starting to ramp-up. In either case, I realize there’s a lot of information out there already and it’s always helpful to get some advice on where to start.

I find it fascinating to learn new technologies, and I truly enjoy working on training content and article plans. For those eager to learn as well, I’ll take you along with me on a joyride of learning what’s new for developers on Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

I’ve spent the last months working in content plans for upcoming MSDN articles, Visual How-tos, and MSDN site projects. Happily, there’s already plenty articles, code samples, and videos on our publishing pipe to cover the most interesting features and scenarios. We started releasing some content in October after the SPC 2009 and in November for Beta. We have much more to come in the following months and it’s a great time to catch-up on blogging as there’s so much to share in the following months. This are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers!

With this blog post, I am starting a series of posts that will guide you through the most interesting 2010 features and resources available for developers. I’ll be tagging this series as learn2010.

I’ll start by introducing the top places/content I recommend if you want to learn more about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 development.

Developing with Office 2010

Videos: The 5-10+ min intros

Key Pillars of Office 2010 Development, the 3 + hours intro to Office 2010 development

The links below provide videos, downloads, and technical articles specific to each pillar.

Web sites and training content for developers

Developing with SharePoint 2010

Videos: The 5-10+ min intros

Key Pillars of SharePoint 2010 Development, the 3 + hours intro to SharePoint 2010 development

The links below provide videos, downloads, and hands-on labs specific to each pillar.

Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010

Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010

Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs

Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs

Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010

Web sites and training content for developers

MSDN SharePoint Developer Center

SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Home Page

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resource Center

SharePoint 2010 Community

SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshop

While generic, the links above can help you understand the big picture. As we approach the launch, I will be drilling-down into more detailed info about developing solutions using specific features pertaining to key pillars of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 development. I’ll try and share more videos, links to articles, pointers to interesting blog posts, and code samples for each piece so you can continue to learn more about features that you find particularly interesting.

Getting Started with Office 2010 Development

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

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 with the latest features. You can find links to all our downloads here:

Download the 2010 Betas

Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Communicator, SharePoint Workspace, and Office Web Apps.

You can learn more about the benefits of Office 2010 by downloading the beta from www.microsoft.com/2010

Office 2010 Developer Content on MSDN

Today, I am also happy to share the availability of our new Office 2010 developer pages on MSDN. We launched a few minutes ago a set of pages that provide Office 2010 developer learning resources including Channel 9 videos, developer references, articles, feeds to Office 2010 bloggers and community resources, and our very first three Office 2010 Visual How-to videos!

We will start publishing more Office 2010 VHTs soon.

Office 2010 (Beta) Developer Center

We have updated our Office 2010 (Beta) Developer Center with more community content and links to developer specific resources. We will add more links to content and videos as we continue publishing.

Developing with Office 2010

Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The following six key initiatives show you how to get started developing with Office 2010.

1 | Getting Started Developing with Office 2010

2 | Extending the Office 2010 Backstage View and Other UI

3 | Working with Office 2010 Data Through the File Formats and Office APIs

4 | Integrating External Data and SharePoint 2010 Platform Services in Office 2010 Solutions

5 | Creating Tracking Applications in Office 2010 and Publishing Them to SharePoint 2010

6 | Using Office 2010 APIs to Customize Application Behavior and Automate Tasks

I’m still developing Office 2007 solutions. Where can I find the content?

We have modified our home page so you can find your way to both Office 2007 and Office 2010 developer content. We have a commitment to continue delivering and helping you discover Office 2007 content.

You should also check the Products tab to find your way to product and version specific developer content.

Check back often the MSDN Office Developer Center for the latest updates on Office 2010 development and follow us on Twitter for the latest news and twits for new content and cool stories about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 development.

I’d also like to suggest you all read David Hale’s great post on Developer Help Updates for Office 2010 Beta!

What about SharePoint 2010 developer content?

In case you missed it, you can find detailed information about our recent SharePoint Conference release here:

Also, check back often the MSDN SharePoint Developer Center for the latest updates on SharePoint 2010 development.

Happy coding!

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:22:00 GMT

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 the new release of Office and SharePoint and I am glad that we can all talk now!!!!

The SharePoint team blog has a good summary of key announcements made today at the conference, so in case you missed the keynote, go check out this blog.

Here’s a few more cool surprises from the MSDN Office and SharePoint Developer Center team.

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

I had the opportunity to work closely with Paul Andrew, Martin Harwar, the MSDN team, and the SharePoint developer content team during the last few months on the new SharePoint 2010 Getting Started training on MSDN. We released this training a few minutes ago and you can all access it here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513147.aspx

The goal of this training is to show you how to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.

This training provides a Silverlight navigation experience that allows you to navigate between ten different learning tracks or modules and you can even test your skills.

Each module includes a set of videos, hands-on labs manuals in C# and VB, and a set code samples/snippets that you can also find in Paul Andrew’s blog.

Here’s a list of all the different modules in this training:

Module 1: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Building Web Parts is one of the most common tasks you will undertake as a developer. SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 enable you to create Web Parts quickly and easily. You can use project templates and project item templates to help you get started building standard ASP.NET Web Parts. You can also build a new type of Web Part called a Visual Web Part.

In this module you will learn how to:

Create standard ASP.NET Web Parts for SharePoint 2010.
Create Visual Web Parts for SharePoint 2010.
Use SharePoint controls and data in Web Parts.

Module 2: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010

Visual Studio 2010 integrates with SharePoint much more closely than in previous versions. Visual Studio 2010 includes SharePoint-specific project types and project item types, and includes powerful packaging, deployment, and debugging features that help increase your efficiency as a SharePoint 2010 developer.

In this module you will learn how to:

Create SharePoint 2010 projects by using Visual Studio 2010.
Create SharePoint 2010 project items by using Visual Studio 2010.
Package and deploy SharePoint 2010 solutions by using Visual Studio 2010.
Explore the SharePoint file system from Visual Studio 2010.
Create solutions that use the SharePoint 2010 object hierarchy.

Module 3: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 includes many components that help increase your efficiency as a developer. The SharePoint platform includes many built-in Web Parts that you can include in your solution, and provides many more components that you can use in Web Parts that you develop.

In this module, you will learn how to:

Explore all of the built-in Web Parts provided by SharePoint 2010.
Configure built-in Web Parts provided by SharePoint 2010.
Use SharePoint controls in Web Parts that you develop.
Render data in Web Parts that you develop by using data controls.

Module 4: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs

Accessing SharePoint data in server-side solutions is one of the most common tasks that you will perform as a SharePoint developer. SharePoint 2010 provides powerful server-side APIs that enable you to retrieve, add, edit, and delete SharePoint data programmatically. SharePoint 2010 also includes the new LINQ to SharePoint technology that enables you to work with SharePoint data efficiently and easily.

In this module you will learn how to:

Access SharePoint list data programmatically by using the SharePoint server-side APIs.
Use LINQ to SharePoint to access SharePoint list data programmatically.
Add files to SharePoint document libraries programmatically.
Modify files in SharePoint document libraries programmatically.
Create and work with content types programmatically.

Module 5: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs

SharePoint 2010 provides a new client object model that enables you to create SharePoint solutions that run remotely from the SharePoint server farm. For example, the client object model enables you to consume and manipulate SharePoint data in Windows Forms applications, Windows Presentation Framework applications, console applications, Microsoft Silverlight applications, and ASP.NET Web applications.

In this module you will learn how to:

Develop Microsoft .NET Framework applications by using the client object model for SharePoint 2010.
Develop Silverlight applications by using the client object model for SharePoint 2010.
Access SharePoint data in .NET Framework and Silverlight applications.

Module 6: Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 provides a new set of technologies known as Business Connectivity Services for retrieving, editing, updating, and deleting data from external systems. This module provides an overview of Business Connectivity Services, and delves into development examples of using Business Connectivity Services data in custom SharePoint solutions.

In this module you will learn how to:

Create Business Connectivity Services applications.
Create and use external content types.
Create .NET Types for Business Connectivity Services applications.

Module 7: Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows

SharePoint 2010 provides a powerful workflow framework that enables you to implement custom business processes that are driven by SharePoint data.

In this module, you will learn how to:

Create workflows for SharePoint 2010 solutions.
Create workflow events for SharePoint 2010 solutions.
Create workflow forms for SharePoint 2010 solutions.
Integrate external data with SharePoint workflows.

Module 8: Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Silverlight 3.0 provides the opportunity for developers to create the next generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). SharePoint 2010 integrates closely with Microsoft Silverlight to enable you to build compelling user interfaces that interact with SharePoint data.

In this module you will learn how to:

Host Silverlight applications in SharePoint 2010.
Build Silverlight Web Parts.
Pass data from SharePoint to Silverlight by using Silverlight parameters.
Render SharePoint data in Silverlight by using the SharePoint client object model.
Render media files from SharePoint in Silverlight applications.

Module 9: Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 provides a new sandbox environment that enables you to run user solutions without affecting the rest of the SharePoint farm. This environment means that users can upload their own custom solutions without requiring intervention from administrators, and without putting the rest of the farm at risk.

In this module you will learn how to:

Explore solution galleries.
Create Web Parts for sandboxed solutions.
Use sandboxed operations.
Differentiate between operations that are allowed in sandboxed solutions and those that are not.

Module 10: Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 provides new user interface components, such as server ribbons, and the new dialog platform. As a developer, you can create controls for the server ribbon and dialog boxes for the dialog platform.

In this module, you will learn how to:

Explore the server ribbon.
Develop controls for the server ribbon.
Explore the dialog platform.
Develop solutions by using the dialog platform.

New MSDN SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center and MSDN Office 2010 (Beta) Developer Center

I am also glad to announce the availability of our new MSDN SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers. We will start adding more links to all the SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 content we can now publish to these pages.

Office 2010 (Beta) Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee513173.aspx

SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resource Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514557.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Community
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee633451.aspx

You can also find links to all the recently SharePoint 2010 developer content published at the SharePoint Developer Docs team blog.

Enjoy!

MSDN Redesign: Office, SharePoint, and VSTO sites are live!

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:39:00 GMT

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 Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx

More sites here: http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa/archive/2009/10/17/msdn-com-refresh.aspx

Office and SharePoint devs - See you in Las Vegas next week!

I’ll be a the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas next week. I will be at the Office developer booths at the following times:

Monday Oct 12 – 2:30PM- 5:45PM
Tuesday Oct 20 – 8:30AM – 10:30AM
Wednesday Oct 21 - 2:30PM – 5:45PM

I’ll also be at the Office Developer and MSDN ATE tables.

I’d love to talk to you about both the MSDN new experience, great content in the pipe, and all the latest news about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. I’ll be blogging more often now that I can talk (starting Monday).

Also lookout for dev news in twitter: @msdn_office, @erikaec, and @sharepointdev.

Let the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 dev stories begin!

Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 + MSDN Redesign + New MSDN Open XML Developer Portal

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:36:00 GMT

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 2010 already, there’s a lot more coming for the SharePoint Developer Conference and Beta 2.

We currently have more than 100 items in the publishing queue to be released between the SP Conference and after Beta 2, plus some great improvements and new pages being built for MSDN Office and MSDN SharePoint Developer Centers. Expect a lot of articles, videos, code samples, and more in the upcoming months.

Moving forward I will focus more on blogging about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for developers and will share related stories and links to others who are doing the same. Here are a few blogs that you should definitely follow if you are interested in developer documentation for Office and SharePoint:

Office 2010 Developer Documentation and Code Samples

SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation and Code Samples

Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation and Stories

I’ll also be attending the SharePoint Developer Conference. It’s always refreshing to have an opportunity to talk to Office and SharePoint developers. I’ll be at the ATE tables and hanging out at the Office developer booths. Hope to see some of you there.

MSDN Redesign

While we work on 2010 content, we are also getting MSDN Office and MSDN SharePoint ready to be revamped with the new MSDN redesign. Scott Hanselman has already shared a preview of this look-and-feel in his blog. Here are a couple snapshots for your delight:

Soon MSDN Office and MSDN SharePoint will get this look. I particularly like that this new set of UI and improvements make the sites more community focused and looking as fresh and cool as the Expression site and the Silverlight site.

This are also exciting times to work with the MSDN team. Scott will be blogging more about this project. If you are into MSDN, you should also check out the Inside MSDN & TechNet blog for more news about MSDN improvements.

Revamped Open XML Developer Center

If you are into Open XML like me, you may have noticed that in the last couple years we have published a lot more articles, Visual How-tos, and code samples for Open XML developers. We have mainly focused in writing more about the Open XML SDK 2.0.

For that same reason, the Open XML Developer Center needed to grow and be organized in a way that would simplify discoverability of content and expose better ways to access content, including videos.

Because we didn’t want to wait until Beta 2 to release this site, we decided to take it live yesterday. Open XML SDK 2.0 developers are interested in finding more articles and guidance and we hope the improvements made to this site can simplify the time you spend learning Open XML and using the Open XML SDK 2.0.

Here are the links that get you to all our new and redesigned pages.

These pages were optimized for the new MSDN redesign I discussed previously, so they will look even better once MSDN makes the switch to the new MSDN design.

Eric White from my team owns the content of this portal and will be blogging soon about more details about this project.

Looking forward to great times and to sharing new content for MSDN Office and MSDN SharePoint!

Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP, Videos, and 50+ Open XML Code Samples

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:28:00 GMT

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 XML Development, you will also be interested in a few more videos and code samples.

Open XML SDK 2.0 Visual How-to Series

We have released some videos, walkthroughs, and code sample downloads in the last couple weeks:

Visual How To: Creating a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation from a Folder of Images by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Merging Simple Content from Excel 2007 Workbooks and Worksheets by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 Classes Versus Using .Net XML Services

Visual How To: Merging PowerPoint 2007 Decks Together by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Generating Documents with Headers and Footers in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Coding a Long-Running Operation Page in SharePoint Server 2007

Visual How To: Embedding Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Visual How To: Adding Images to Documents in Word 2007 by Using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

More to come soon.

Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008

I am also glad to announce that yesterday we published 50+ Open XML code samples packaged as Visual Studio code snippets. The code samples were created by Ken Getz as an update to the previous Open XML Visual Studio 2005 code snippets released a couple years ago. The previous snippets provided samples on manipulating document parts and packages using the System.IO.Packaging namespace. This new set provides more code samples that show how to manipulate document parts and packages using the Open XML SDK 2.0. The snippets were tested and work well with the August CTP released this week.

You can download the snippets here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=78bea298-a3f9-44cf-bde0-b4f30dc986df&displaylang=en

The snippets in this download use the Open XML SDK 2.0 to accomplish many tasks involving Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Word 2007 documents.

You can use the enclosed code snippets with the Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 Code Snippet Manager. Each snippet provides unique functionality that you can reuse within an application. This download provides snippets written in Microsoft Visual Basic.NET® and Microsoft C#® development languages.

Here’s a list of all the snippets included in this package:

Microsoft Office Excel Snippets

Excel: Add custom UI

Add custom ribbon markup to a specified workbook.

Excel: Delete comments by user

Delete comments from a workbook, given an author name. Pass an empty author name to delete all comments.

Excel: Delete row

Given a document name, a worksheet name, and a one-based row index, delete a row from the worksheet.

Excel: Delete worksheet

Delete the specified sheet from within the specified workbook.

Excel: Delete XL4 macro sheets

Given a document name delete all the XL4 macro sheets.

Excel: Export chart

Given a workbook and the name of a chart, export the chart to an XML file.

Excel: Get all sheets

Retrieve a List of all the sheets in a workbook.

Excel: Get cell for reading

Given a document name, a worksheet name, and a cell name, retrieve a reference to the cell for reading. Raise an exception of the cell doesn't exist.

Excel: Get cell for writing

Given a spreadsheet document, a sheet name and an address, return a reference to a cell ready to accept a value. Create the cell if necessary.

Excel: Get cell format

Given a document name, a worksheet name, and a cell name, return the CellFormat instance associated with the cell.

Excel: Get cell value

Given a document name, a worksheet name, and a cell name, get the value of the cell.

Excel: Get cell value given row and column

Rertrieve a cell value given its row and column numbers, or a row number and column name.

Excel: Get column header

Given a document name, a worksheet name, and a cell name, get the column of the cell and return the content of the first cell in that column.

Excel: Get defined names

Given a document name, return a dictionary of defined names.

Excel: Get hidden rows or columns

Given a document name, and a worksheet name, return a list of either hidden rows or columns.

Excel: Get hidden worksheets

Retrieve a list of all the hidden worksheets in a workbook.

Excel: Get style border

Retrieve information about a cell's border.

Excel: Get style border info

Get style border information.

Excel: Get style fill

Retrieve information about a cell's fill style.

Excel: Get style fill information

Retrieve specific font formatting information about a cell.

Excel: Get style font information

Retrieve specific font formatting information about a cell.

Excel: Insert Custom XML

Insert a custom XML part into a workbook.

Excel: Insert header or footer

Insert a header or footer into a workbook.

Excel: Insert number into cell

Given a file, a sheet, and a cell, insert a specified numeric value.

Excel: Insert string into cell

Given a document name, a worksheet name, a cell name, and a value, insert the text into the specified cell.

Excel: Insert string into cell

Insert a string into a specified cell.

Excel: Set recalc option

Given a file name, set the recalculation behavior of the workbook. Return the previous calc mode.

Excel: Worksheet part by name

Retrieve an entire worksheet part, given its name.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Snippets

PowerPoint: Add comment

Add a comment to the first slide in a presentation.

PowerPoint: Delete all comments, by author

Delete all comments in a PowerPoint presentation for a specific author. Pass an empty string for the author name to delete all comments.

PowerPoint: Delete slide by title

Given a presentation and a slide title, delete the slide.

PowerPoint: Get List of Slide Titles

Given a presentation file, retrieve a generic list of strings containing the slide titles. Some slide titles might be empty strings.

PowerPoint: Get slide count

Given a file name, retrieve the number of slides in the presentation.

PowerPoint: Get slide index, by title

Find the zero-based index of a slide within a presentation, given its title.

PowerPoint: Reorder slides

Given a PPT deck, an original position, and a new position, attempt to place the slide in the original position into the new position within the deck.

PowerPoint: Replace image on slide

Given a presentation, a slide title, and an image file, replace the first image on the selected slide with the new image.

PowerPoint: Replace slide title

Given a presentation, a slide title, and a new slide title, find the slide, and modify its title.

Microsoft Office Word Snippets

Word: Accept all revisions

Given a document name and an author name, accept all revisions by the specified author. Pass an empty string for the author to accept all revisions.

Word: Add Table

Add a table, including text from an array, to the end of a document.

Word: Convert DOCM to DOCX

Convert a macro-enabled document to a standard document.

Word: Delete all comments

Given a document name and an author name, delete all comments by the specified author. Pass an empty string for the author to accept all revisions.

Word: Delete headers and footers

Delete headers and footers from a document.

Word: Delete hidden text

Delete hidden text from a document.

Word: Extract Styles

Extract the Styles part from a document, so you can insert it into another document.

Word: Get application property

Retrieve the value of an application property from a document.

Word: Get Content Control

Retrieve the markup for a specific content control.

Word: Get core property

Retrieve the value of a core property from a document.

Word: Get custom property

Retrieve a custom property for a document.

Word: Replace the styles part

Replace the entire styles part with a styles part extracted from another document.

Word: Retrieve comments

Retrieve all the comments from a document in an XDocument instance.

Word: Retrieve Table of Contents

Retrieve the table of contents markup, if it exists.

Word: Set application property

Given a document name, a property to set, and a value, update the document.

Word: Set core property

Set a core Word property (like Version, or LastModifiedBy).

Word: Set custom property

Given a document name, a property name/value, and the property type, add a custom property to a document.

Word: Set print orientation

Set the print orientation for each section in a document.

Enjoy!

Are you an Office Developer? Identify yourself as a member of the “Office Developer Guild”

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMT

This will be interesting for all of you who are into Office development: As Office developers, we can start identifying ourselves as active members of the community by joining the “Office Developer Guild” spearheaded by John Durant.

The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now have the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook. Additional benefits in the ODG include receiving announcements, slightly ahead of everyone else, of up-coming content, events, etc. That way you can tee up your own blog entries in advance! You’ll also receive exclusive messages from community leaders and insiders. As part of the on-going Office developer conversation I’ll be reaching out, asking questions, and soliciting feedback as well.

Who can join? Anyone who is interested in how to developer productivity solutions with Microsoft Office. This includes Web, SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange, VBA, XML and other developers--- all of these products & technologies are relevant.

How to join? Search for my email on Facebook and request to be added: john.durant@microsoft.com. I’ll add you.

Host the ODG image: Place the ODG “badge” on your site or blog so that you identify yourself as a member of the “the Guild”. Be sure to announce on the ODG wall that you are hosting the ODG image (shown below).

Blog, twitter, and help us spread the word

Here’s a smaller version of the image that I am hosting on my blog:

Hope you all join the “Office Developer Guild!”

Get Started Resources for Fluent UI Extensibility + Download the New Office Developer Resources Ribbon Tab

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:00 GMT

I remember all the buzz generated when we announced the new Fluent UI (Ribbon) for Office 2007 applications. The Microsoft Office Fluent UI replaced 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 shortcuts that help to improve user efficiency and productivity.

In Office 2007, the Fluent UI is implemented in several applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office suite, including Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. Fluent UI can be customized programmatically thanks to Fluent UI extensibility. MSDN has great articles, VHTs, and downloads that show you how to get started with Fluent UI extensibility.

In Office 2010, the Fluent UI is available in more Office apps including Visio, InfoPath, Publisher, Outlook (improved), OneNote, and Project. Thanks to the expansion of Fluent UI to more products, developers will be able to provide more custom Fluent UI experiences. As explained by Brian Jones, in Office 2010 the Fluent UI extensibility story has been improved as well. We have added the ability for programmatically activating tabs in the Fluent UI. For example, you can now have your custom tabs behave like built in contextual tabs, where tabs only show when specific events are fired.

Fluent UI extensibility resources

If you are interested in learning more about Fluent UI extensibility and get ready for more Fluent UI programming in Office 2010, here’s a list of recommended resources:

Office Fluent User Interface Developer Portal: This should be your first stop for all resources related to Fluent UI extensibility. This portal page provides technical articles, code samples, videos, Visual How-tos, and developer documentation on customizing the Office Fluent UI in the 2007 Microsoft Office release. Soon, we will have more resources for Office 2010.
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3): Learn how to customize the 2007 Office Fluent user interface. Also learn how new features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System support RAD development of Ribbon customizations.
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3):This article is the companion to the part one and part three articles of the same name. This article contains detailed reference material about the controls and method signatures of the Ribbon user interface.
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3): This article is the companion to the part one and part two articles of the same name. This article contains a list of frequently asked questions regarding the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.
Office System Document: Lists of Control IDs: Download files that list the control IDs for built-in controls in all applications that use the Office Fluent Ribbon.
2007 Office System Document: UI Style Guide for Solutions and Add Ins: Download guidelines for creating a consistent end-user experience based on the design of the 2007 release of Microsoft Office suites.
Visual Studio Code Snippets for the Office Fluent UI: This download includes Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# code snippets for use when customizing Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007.

Also, check out the Fluent UI resource centers on TechNet and Office Online.

Download the New Office Developer Resources Ribbon Tab

MSDN Office Developer Center (ODC) provides a developer roadmap to understand and work with Office System programs, servers, services, tools and technologies. Since we are developers, we thought it would be great to provide a Office Developer Resources Ribbon Tab that you can download for free. Frank Rice created a super cool Visual Basic .NET shared add-in in Visual Studio that creates a tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon.

This Ribbon tab provides quick access to developer sites on MSDN for Office and SharePoint, as well as a rich set or organized links to Get Started, MSDN Library, Learn, Community, Forums and Support resources that matter to Office/SharePoint developers.

This is a useful tool for anyone interested in getting quick access to Office and SharePoint developer resources from a frequently used application like Word. Also, if you are into blogging from Word or writing technical documentation related to Office or SharePoint, this a tool that simplifies navigation and discoverability to most popular developer resources. Finally, this is just another great sample of the detailed level of customization you can get with Fluent UI extensibility.

Frank Rice has created most of the developer content we have about Fluent UI extensibility on MSDN and he is considered our expert in Fluent UI development. Frank shares in his blog post the code and process he followed to create this Ribbon. You can download this free add-in at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OfficeDevResourceTab/. Kudos to Frank for this great sample.

Enjoy!

What’s New in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Technical Preview post)

Erika Ehrli Cabral — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:15:00 GMT

I was out of town and had to miss the excitement of blogging about the launch of the Office Technical Preview yesterday. Lucky me, today I have tons of links and trackbacks to other blog posts to share!

What’s New in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?

Yesterday, Stephen Elop announced the technical preview milestone for Microsoft Office 2010 at the WorldWide Partner Conference.

From the Press Pass:

Office 2010 and related products will deliver innovative capabilities and provide new levels of flexibility and choice that will help people:

Work anywhere with Office Web applications — the lightweight Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — that provide access to documents from virtually anywhere and preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device.
Collaborate better with co-authoring in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010, and advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft Outlook 2010, including the option for users to ”ignore” unwanted threads.
Bring ideas to life with video and picture editing, broadcast capability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, easy document preparation through the new Microsoft Office Backstage view, and new Sparklines in Microsoft Excel 2010 to visualize data and spot trends more quickly.

What’s new in….

Word 2010? Introducing Word 2010!
Access 2010? Office 2010 Technical Preview Ships
Excel 2010? Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Released
PowerPoint 2010?PowerPoint 2010 Technical Preview
Outlook 2010? Announcing Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview, New features in Outlook 2010!
OneNote 2010? What’s new in OneNote 2010 video
Project 2010? Announcing Microsoft Project 2010 Technical Preview
InfoPath 2010? Install the Office 2010 Technical Preview and win an Xbox 360 Elite!
SharePoint 2010? Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview
Visio 2010? Visio 2010 Technical Beta program
SharePoint Workspace 2010? All the Groovey news that fits - Makeover for Groove- SharePoint
Office Web Applications? Microsoft Office Web Applications: Your Burning Questions Answered

What’s new for developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (TP)?

Office 2010 Roadmap (TP)

Tools productivity	UI Platform	Application Extensibility
Improved Office and SharePoint development with Visual Studio 2010 Improved deployment experience for Office solutions Improved Open XML SDK Improved toolset for Access 2010	Fluent UI (Ribbon) support added to more products Backstage view and context menu programmability support	Excel “slicers” and “sparklines” extensibility Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, Visio, and Outlook enriched APIs. Improved Outlook object model

Read more details at John Durant’s great post.

SharePoint 2010 Roadmap (TP):

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tool
Language Integrated Query to SharePoint
Developer Dashboard
Business Connectivity Services
Client Object Model
Silverlight Web Part

Read more details at Paul Andrew’s post and at the Developer Sneak peek video:

Office and SharePoint development blogs:

Office 2010 client development and OBA: Gray Knowlton, John Durant, Frank Rice, and Office Client Developer Content and Resources
Open XML and Interoperability: Brian Jones, Doug Mahugh, Stephen Peront, Eric White
SharePoint 2010 development: Paul Andrew, Paul Stubbs, Steve Fox, Randall Isenhour, Andrew May, Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog
Office development with Visual Studio 2010: Beth Massi, Kathleen McGrath, Christin Boyd
More Office and SharePoint developer blogs to follow: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905342.aspx