As you all know the SharePoint Conference last year in Las Vegas was a great show (here are links to broadcasts of several of our sessions ). I followed the show with a ticket to see U2’s 360 concert (unlike any other spectacle in rock-and-roll). Since...

So, I was at TechEd 2010 talking a lot about Office 2010 solutions development last week and love was in the air…mostly because I gave out hundreds of t-shirts with our www.iheartmacros.com URL on them. I would say to people coming to our kiosk, “This...

Open XML was a big part of my first session at TechEd 2010 called, "Office 2010: Developing the Next Wave of Productivity Solutions". The thing that gets the biggest reaction is the Open XML SDK 2.0 "Productivity Tool"-- especially the ability to reflect...

I’ve talked with with many dozens of customers here at TechEd 2010 about Office 2010 and shown them a lot of demos at the kiosk. As they arrive I hand them a www.iheartmacros.com t-shirt (hugely popular, btw). Very often the response is: “This...

MSDN now features a special site (also accessible via www.iheartmacros.com ) dedicated to Microsoft Office VBA - an important part of the Office 2010 value. The site presents a clear path for technically savvy users to begin learning how to customize...

There's a great new article by Michael Desmond in Visual Studio Magazine called " Office Alignment: Why Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are poised to unleash a new wave of developer innovation ". Read it and you'll get Michael's always engaging insight...