For the past 7 years, I worked in Developer Platform Evangelism to talk to customers about the latest and greatest technologies that Microsoft would soon be releasing, and worked to gain early adopters of the technologies.  This was a very fun job, but I desired a change.  This past July, I...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the SharePoint TechFest 2010 event today in Dallas, Texas.  Over 650 people at this event, holy smokes it was a great time.  I had the first time slot of the day, and when I first started the talk the room wasn’t even 1/4 full (maybe about 30 people). ...

Lately I have fallen in love with Office programming, but I’m still a complete n00b at it.  I was pilfering through my RSS feeds the other day, and realized I didn’t have a way to export the feeds list as OPML.  Hmm… good time to open Visual Studio and start tinkering.  Here is what I...

Andrew Coates has posted a great set of resources on VSTO v3 Deployment , including his PowerPoint deck. I have recently started to see the value of VSTO and have been talking a lot more about it with my customers. Hopefully I'll get off my lazy rear and start to blog about it, too. I also have the pleasure...