Our team is working on some ideas for one of our developer documentation sets – the Open XML SDK – and we’d like your feedback. Please download the attached zip file that contains the two prototypes, take a few minutes to compare them...

In Oct of this year, I blogged about the awesome new offering from the Excel team that gives developers the ability to create cool apps (like mashups) using an embedded Excel workbook on a host web page. Just using the Excel Services JavaScript API, a...

This week our group published the Outlook 2010 Auxiliary Reference , and updated the Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference ! The two references have been reorganized such that all content pertaining to MAPI for Outlook is now centralized in the Outlook 2010...

[Ed. note: The data analysis in this posting was made possible by the work of JP Bagel, Rod Chisholm (Excel Programming Writer), and Mike Stowe (Access Programming Writer). All I've done here is copy and paste their work. -dgh] In the 2007 Microsoft...

The 2007 Microsoft Office System was released into the wild about a year ago. I’d like to share what we've learned about your usage of the Access 2007 Developer Reference since its release. BTW, I'm Mike Stowe, the programmability writer for Access...

With the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2007, you can now programmatically access and manipulate charts using the VBA object model in Word 2007 SP2 and PowerPoint 2007 SP2. Prior to Service Pack 2, you could only access charts using...

This blog post describes how to create a custom WOPI host.  A WOPI host is document storage location that can connect to Office Web Apps Server to open Office documents in the browser.  When the WOPI host is configured to use Office Web Apps...

Some internal partners and external customers have asked where to find the Messaging API (MAPI) documentation. Coincidentally, there were some updating issues on the MSDN server for a couple of days around the middle of the month, which caused corruption...

On July 13, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2010 reached the Technical Preview engineering milestone. Even though the Office 2010 Technical Preview bits and most of the documentation are available to only participants of the Technical Preview...

The Scenario Do you sometimes wonder how time slipped by during the work day, and you can’t recall what projects you worked on or how much time you spent on them? I usually record how I spend my time in the Outlook calendar. For example, today...

Greetings. My name is Rod Chisholm and I am the Programming Writer for Excel client VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and Programmability. Our reference material is available in the box, on MSDN , and NOW on Office Online . This gives us the unique...

The Outlook 2007 Messaging API (MAPI) Reference is now officially published on MSDN! If you are interested in using MAPI to develop solutions that work with Outlook, take a look! Microsoft MAPI specialist Stephen Griffin already talked about a few...

Hello. My name is David Hale and I am a new Content Publishing Manager at Microsoft Corporation in the Office organization. The people on my team produce the developer-oriented content (published on MSDN and Office Online) for the following applications...

There are some quick and easy things you can do to make sure you are getting the optimal VBA Developer Help experience when working with the 2007 Office System. Watch this three minute video to learn more. '

Our Office Dev Docs Team blog has been laying low while the team is heads-down authoring new content for our developers. Would you like to indicate the top 4 types of documentation that you find most helpful to you? Conceptual - what is the feature...