The Office Developer Conference finished on Wednesday and it was unbelievable! Jay Paulus, Director of the Office Platform Strategy team kicked it off to a great start. Following that, Bill Gates talked saying: "Making Office into a platform is...

There were several resources announced at the Office Developer Conference on Monday that if you are a developer or architect, are just going to knock your socks off. The great line-up consists of: - OBA Sample Application Kits for SAP and...

Well I haven't written in a while because I've been deep in preparation for the Office Developer Conference which I personally think is going to be a blast! If you guys haven't signed, you better soon, because it's going to be an event you definitely...

Collection 6071 : Developing Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 In this online collection composed of six courses, you will learn how to develop customized Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions...

What's the single best conference to go to where you'll get up to speed on OBAs and Office 2007 products and technologies? Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008 Feb 10-13 2008 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California This conference...

There is a lot of really powerful integration between SAP and MOSS and the awareness about this is really, for some reason, quite low. We've talked about integrating LOB data into SharePoint with the Business Data Catalog but there are some specific capabilities...

The latest and greatest MOSS SDK release just went LIVE with an exciting new tool: The BDC Application Definition Editor! This tool abstracts the way you create entities in the Application Definition File by giving you an easy to use UI. Features include...

The white paper and code sample for Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , written by Sonya Zidek, is now live and up for grabs! Here's a short summary: This white paper examines some of the...

I know I'm a little late announcing this, but I still wanted to get this out there. There are some great new Virtual Hands-On Labs available on MSDN, especially some really cool new VSTO ones: MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications...

Over the past few weeks while enjoying the summer weather here in Seattle (finally!), I've been busy fly fishing and preparing for a new puppy. I'm not really good at either and so I've been spending a lot of time looking through resources trying to get...

Do you love the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) but feel at a loss now that it is not supported by Office 2007? I've been working with Scot Hillier and Bhushan Nene to provide you with a white paper complete with sample code on how you can use the...

You've probably been hearing about new Office 2007 file formats and that the fact that they are based on Open XML is a great benefit. But why? Why should you as developers care? Are they nothing more than just a compressed file format? Actually, they...

Yes! There is such a thing and it's an actual, server-grade, supported product! It's part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it's the published version of an Excel spreadsheet which gives you the ability to share business intelligence around...

Since I've last blogged, we've released 7 more How-To's on the Office Developer How-To Center giving you a total of 9 code samples with accompanying videos, articles, and resources. The topics range from the new Open XML file formats presented by MVP...

In my previous posts, I showed you how to create a custom ribbon and how to create a custom Task Pane using VSTO, but how do you tie these two together? I've created a solution to show you how to do that. It's based on the scenario of a travel agency...

I'm excited to announce that the MSDN Office Developer How-To Center has gone LIVE! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb266408.aspx The How-To Center consists of a set of "Visual How-To Topics" which combine a video demo, a conceptual overview...

Earlier last week, Russ Stalters tagged me. Remember when you used to get those e-mails from your friends asking you about your favorite things and then you had to forward that on to 5 other friends? Well it's back and it's in blog format. Of course I...

Working with Ted Pattison, a SharePoint MVP and owner of the Ted Pattison Group , the Item-Level Auditing source-code and white paper was released on Tuesday to help you get started building your own custom compliance solutions on Office 2007. Here's...

In order to create Office Business Applications (OBAs), you need to understand the basics. There are a lot of blogs out there which talk about one set of features, one set of technologies, or one product. In my blog, I want to be able to cover a wide...

As promised, I'm going to show you how to customize the Office 2007 Ribbon. If any of you attended the TechEd EMEA conference, you may have seen me do a demo where I customized the ribbon using Visual Studio 2005 but now I'm going to show you how to do...

I know that I mentioned that I'll start stepping you through customizing the ribbon today but I am just too excited! I released my whitepaper on Compliance Features for the 2007 Microsoft Office System today and I can't seem to talk about anything else...

I'm back from TechEd EMEA in Barcelona and I was really glad to see all the excitement out there around Office 2007. The one thing that did surprise me was all the confusion surrounding Office Business Applications. I agree, the name is a tad cryptic...

If you haven't looked into the latest version of Office, then you'll be quite surprised. It's a rock solid platform based on common technologies, it has tools for all skill levels and integrates across Office 2007's more than 30 clients, servers and services...