Wow, the number of bloggers on the team is growing exponentially!!! I was alone for quite some time and then Isaias started. This week I already linked to Jesper's blog and today I just found out that Jorn also started his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com...

So what is going on right now? Well, last Monday Oct 30 th we shipped Office Accounting 2007 and made express available as a free download. Tuesday I got to see the videos of our launch in Willow Springs , IL . Wednesday we started to think about our...

Isaias blogs about how to sell on eBay from Office Accounting 2007 Isaias is probably one of the experts on this, as he owned this feature from early own and worked very hard on seeing this through. It really is a great feature to have linked to your...

Microsoft tries to lure ‘mom and pop’ companies . Interesting title which I don’t really agree that we want to ‘lure’ but well, it got my attention so I decided to blog about it. First of all, I’m glad that we shipped v 2.0 or our product on time! Second...

When a UI Add-in form is open and SBA 2006/Office Accounting 2007 is closed, the UI Add-in form closes without firing the Closed or Closing events. This prevents the developer from asking if the user would like to save their changes before the form closes...

The next version of SBA SDK is coming (under a different product name) and it's time to start looking at some of the changes in the Add-ins area. Referencing SBAAPI.dll First of all, we found out that our 1.0 SDK sample for UIAddIn, we were referencing...

A couple months ago I posted a step by step process for doing a Business Logic Add-in Sample in C#, so finally here is the second part for doing this in VB.NET. The instructions are pretty much copied from the original post but I have translated the code...

I wanted to post a quick sample that I think might be useful. The escenario that I ran into is when you have two Add-ins that complement each other, a UI Add-in and a Business Logic Add-in . Since the user can enable only one of them and disable the other...

Yes, last week we announced the public beta of Office Accounting 2007, which is pretty cool because we've been working very hard on this version (since before the previous version was on the shelves). The biggest news is the product name change (does...

I must confess I'm a little rusty in my VB because I don't use it often enough. But I wanted to post this sample in Visual Basic .NET. I used the Code Translator from CarlosAg and it worked perfectly, except that it couldn't translate the implicit convertion...

I am a volunteer to be a job shadow for the DigiGirlz camp that Microsoft organizes every year. It is a wonderful idea and I'm also passionate about getting more women into Computer Science or Engineering. I couldn't find a lot of info about this externally...

We always try to think about the person that is going to ultimately use our SDK but the reality that is that we not always end up receiving all the feedback that we should. When someone is just starting to use our SDK, they do ask us questions (through...

Yes, on August 4th, 2003 I went to the New Employee Orientation. I had just finished my bachelors degree from ITESM Campus Monterrey and was moving to start my career at Microsoft. I had been an intern twice, but the first team I interned at didn't exist...

This is a quick sample I put together after a post in our newsgroups. I don't think we have this functionality but I could see that some users (especially those with thousands of items in their inventory) could use this. So this sample is to show how...

I recently started reading and participating on our SBA SDK newsgroup on a regular basis. Before, I only went there from time to time. I'm glad that many customers and developers go there to ask questions and post suggestions, because we really read them...

Yes, SBA supports different ways to install an Addin but I do not recommend doing anything but installing Addins to the GAC. Why? Because moving forward we want your Addins to work with future versions of SBA, so if you install in the installation directory...

I recently found out that we have this really good PowerPoint covering some of the main aspects to understand and use our SDK. It was put together by Robert Blanch, the Dev Manager for SBA v.1.0 and it is really something that I would recommend to anyone...

I didn't work on the business logic addins that we support in the product, but they have a very interesting model to allow addins to be called before saving/deleting an account or document. The bad thing is we didn't ship a sample in our SDK and I just...

Bienvenidos! This is starting and I've just completed the About page for this blog. I really hate when bloggers leave that empty, since that is what I usually read the first time I find an interesting blog. My name is Martha Arellano and I'm a Developer...