Word Automation Services (WAS) is a new shared service in SharePoint that debuted with the release of SharePoint Server 2010. WAS runs on the SharePoint Server service application infrastructure and enables unattended, server-side conversion of documents...

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Helmut Obertanner*, published two articles on MSDN today: Developing an Inspector Wrapper for Outlook 2010 Enforcing Business Rules in Outlook 2010 Inspector Wrapper An inspector...

[Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts that will highlight some of the new members of the Visio OM that so far haven’t received a lot of fanfare.] You might not be aware of the addition of a new method on the Page object to the Visio 2010...

[Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts that highlight some of the new members of the Visio VBA OM.] In the first post in this series, I talked about the Page.DropConnected method. In this post, I’ll present another new method on the Page...

The Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference is now live on MSDN Library. Accompanying the documentation in the Library, there are also two download pages: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference...

The object model reference documentation for the Office client applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, etc., etc.) provides detailed information about the associated properties, methods, and events for objects that are exposed through...

The Outlook 2007 Developer Reference has been updated on MSDN on November 13, 2007! This Reference contains conceptual, reference, and programming task topics, guiding developers to program Outlook using the Outlook Object Model. This is the first update...

Ghaban Berry has created a phenomenal new blog on Excel development over at http://blogs.msdn.com/gabhan_berry/default.aspx . Not to be missed!

Did you know that if you double-click on a non-linked word in a NYTimes.com article, it will open a new window with a definition of that word? Neither did I until I accidentally doubled clicked a word trying to select it today. Nice!

Erika has a detailed post on the new release of the Open XML Format SDK, as well as the future of the SDK. The Client Dev Docs team is looking forward to creating the new components (Version 2.0, below) of the SDK over the coming year.

Do you know about the new Outlook add-in that automates highlighting of your search string in an email message? The Visual How To, Automating Search Highlighting in Outlook 2010 , provides a real add-in that you can build in Visual Studio and run with...

The time reporting macro that I blogged about a few months ago has been implemented as a C# Outlook 2010 add-in. The add-in's Visual Studio project is now available for download as part of the Visual How To Creating a Simple Time-Reporting Tool Based...

In addition to delivering developer-oriented content for the Office client applications such as Access, Excel, Outlook, Word, and Visio, the Office Client Developer Content team is also responsible for providing documentation on SharePoint Server service...

API References and SDKs Component API Reference for Office 2010 Outlook 2010 Developer Reference (MSDN refresh) Outlook 2010 Primary Interop Assembly Reference (MSDN refresh) OneNote Developer Reference: Application Interface ...

Developers and power users new to programming with the Excel object model take note: there is a new series of videos that show how to create, edit, and run macros in Excel 2010: Save time by creating and running macros in Excel 2010 ! This set of...