We have published the Office 2003 Smart Tag Developer Tools . These include some essential tools that help you when you are developing and testing smart tags. For example, the Smart Tag Explorer presents a nice interface for viewing all of the installed...

Back in February, I heard about ActiveWords from my friend, Chris Kunicki . I communicated briefly in email with the two braintrusts behind this product, and they encouraged me to give it a try. I have intended to do so for nearly 7 months, but I could...

Very shortly, we will publish the Research Services Development Extras (RSDE) on our MSDN Office Developer Center ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/office ). I wanted to give you a heads-up on what's involved. If you have written your Research Service for...

So, Chase went with .NET to retool is huge commerical card platform called PaymentNet ( see the story here ). What pleases me most about these stories is not that the customer has decided to go with .NET and Windows 2003 Server, a sign that they...

One of the things that many developers are doing with Office is writing managed code applications. The fact is, Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System is the way to go if you are writing an app for Word, Excel, and InfoPath (sp1). The...

I wrote a little utility about 1.5 years ago called ScreenRes. Basically, I wanted a tool to adjust the screen res, switching between two preferred modes. This is because I do a lot of screen captures (I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro to do my basic capturing...

I caught this response by WSS deity Mike Walsh (see the microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices ng) to the question of how to sort items in the Quick Launch toolbar of a SharePoint site: No. It's not possible using the web interface. You'll find...

A recent question came through on an email thread I was on, and I thought it should get a little broader distribution. The question had to do with digitial certificates and using them to sign a smart document XML Expansion Pack (for more info on this...

First things first: Why am I posting so much today? Well, after my vacation to Tonga, I was buried in email (1200 messages) that required answers, not just deletion. That's 1200 with my filters on, with my rules going etc. When I first came to Microsoft...

A few posts ago, I mentioned how MSDN has some localized content on the Spanish site ( see this entry ). Well, I also found out that the Definitive Hello World Managed Smart Document Tutorial has been localized as: Tutorial definitivo Hola mundo...

We just published more(!) content for InfoPath. It just keeps coming, mainly because the interest is strong. Here are headlines from our main page as of a half-hour ago. A couple of these are re-issues. For example, we published 16 labs for InfoPath...

The Spanish MSDN site geared toward Office development is live. This is a great place to go for localized content (content includes a subset of what we have on the full-blown Office Developer Center and other info in a cool romance language!). We need...

I spent a good share of my Saturday taking the movies of our Tonga vacation from my Canon zr-40 into Movie Maker 2 and working with them. I really like Movie Maker 2, and if want to augment it with additionally sophisticated video editing (cropping...

I stumbled on this little nugget about our responding to the demand for the Welsh language in Office. Microsoft deal puts Welsh in reach worldwide It reminded me of when I was doing my first Masters degree and I bought a book of Welsh-language poetry...

I meant to blog about this earlier, but my vacation threw everything off. One of the issues I care about most is security when creating Office-oriented solutions. Now, as anyone knows, the answer to this question, "What is a secure system?" depends...

I am not sure how I missed this, but CambridgeDocs, makers of a product for aggregating content and managing its publication through a variety of channels, released a WordML/XSL-FO converter that makes Word 2003 documents more easily consumable...