We just published a new article “ Reading and Writing Custom Document Properties in Microsoft Office Word 2003 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET ” by Frank Rice. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_wdcustprop...

Chris Kunicki’s recent blog entry ( http://blogs.officezealot.com/MT/mt-tb.cgi/159 ) on taming Outlook reminded me of a little modification I made to Outlook to get a specific behavior I liked. Outlook 2003 has the cool feature for flagging items...

So, I found this interesting thing happening in the way .NET orders controls to a collection. I am not talking TabIndex here. I was working on this little app that has a GroupBox on a form. I added some radiobuttons to the groupbox. When a user updates...

I was sitting here planning the Web site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/office ) getting things in place, pushing developer content while I mess around with Windows Media Encoder on the side. My questions: What changes do you want on the site? What content...

If you are looking for tutorials on how to get going with smart documents, I recommend the following articles, the second of which is brand new! Article “The Definitive "Hello World" Managed Smart Document Tutorial” : http://msdn.microsoft...

Our main dev center page just (moments ago) went live with a new spotlight on InfoPath. Lots of great content is arriving daily! Check it out now. http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/

OK- so I just got out of this meeting, wherein we were discussing some up-coming content for the site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/office ) I manage (really it’s managed by capable hands at MSDN, but my team and I do all of the content management...

One of the features that is outrageously good is that you can right-click on a link for an RSS feed and a pop-up menu lets you choose to Subscribe in NewsGator . Voilà! The RSS feed appears in your list in Outlook. Thanks to Chris Kunicki for getting...

I just installed newsgator, and I am not sure if I can adore it as others seem to have. I’ll give it time. I like the idea of adding value to my Outlook experience. But, another benefit came along. So often, when I use non-Microsoft software, my...

Yesterday, my new Beatles CD arrived from www.bn.com , and it is the new unadorned version of the Let it Be tracks. I highly recommend this album. You hear the Beatles as few ever heard them. It's been in continuous loop in my computer since this morning...

I figured I would get the truth about my demographic out there right from the start. Actually, this is not my first blog. I started my blog www.officezealot.com last year, and I thank Chris Kunicki for getting me going. He's amazing. Get to know him a...