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VSTO 2005 Second Edition RTW
Yesterday we announced the availability of VSTO 2005 Second Edition for Office 2007. This is now available as a web download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86CAB3-6FD6-4955-B979-E1676DB6B3CB&displaylang=en Crucially this Read More...
Adding intellisense support for Office 2003 development
This download appeared on MSDN a couple of months back: Intellisense files for Visual Studio Tools for Office . Despite the title of the download these files can be used in any .NET Office System development regardless of whether you are using VSTO or Read More...
Office 12 XML features available in all editions
Office 12 will make the XML integration features available in all editions of the product. Read More...
Misha Shneerson is blogging
Welcome to the blogosphere Misha. Read More...
My TechEd Europe Sessions
I have the dates for my TechEd sessions now. WCD351 Programming Word XML Solutions Wed 6 Jul 12:00 Microsoft Office Word 2003 enables a powerful integration between Word documents and XML data streams. See how you can liberate the content of a document Read More...
Fabrikam Learning Platform available for pre-order
The documentation has been available on MSDN for around 6 months now, but at long last the Office System Fabrikam Learning Platform itself is available for pre-order. The DVDs are currently in production and should be shipping soon. Here's the official Read More...
Office 2003 PIAs now available as a Reditributable Package
The Office 2003 licence said that the Primary Interop Assemblies that ship with Office were not redistributable. That changes now with the release of a redist package you can use in your setup programs. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0-d36d67e0f4ad&DisplayLang=e Read More...
Quick Tip: Learning the Office Object Model
This is an old one, but still a good one. Want to do something programmatically in Word/Excel etc. and don't know how to? Simply hit Tools/Macro/Record to start recording a new macro. Perform the action through the UI, and stop the recording. Then you Read More...
Word 2003 XML SDK Download available
Title says it all really. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ca83cb4f-8dee-41a3-9c25-dd889aea781c&displaylang=en Read More...
Office 12 to include Workflow Capabilities
After the first murmurings around Exchange 12 , a little more Office 12 info is starting to eek out. InfoWorld reports BillG's speech at the Office Dev Con last week in which he announced Office 12 is to include built-in workflow capabilities. Of course Read More...
MSDN Magazine Office Special
The February MSDN Magazine is devoted in large part to Office development. John Durant write on creating Research Pane services to search IM logs. Alok Mehta writes on intregrating data into Excel from Web Services Maxim Karpov and Eric Schoonover discuss Read More...
Attatching an XML Expansion Pack to a document programmatically
Avner writes about how to attach a smart document XML Expansion Pack to a document programmatically: Read More...
What's in a name? The Information Worker, The Knowledge Worker and The Structured Task Worker
The other day I was explaining to a customer about the different types of Information Worker. Doing a web search afterwards I found very little information available about a bunch of terms we tend to bandy about quite freely without ever really explaining: Read More...
How To Submit Ideas and Suggestions for Microsoft Office Products
Do you have an idea for a new feature or addition to one of the Office products? Maybe there is something about the way a feature works that really annoys you? Believe it or not, there is a simple way to submit your ideas to the Office team for consideration. Read More...
Doing Office Development? Get this book...
If you are doing any kind of dev with Office using managed code you really need to get a copy of Andrew Whitechapel's new book, .NET Development for Microsoft Office. Until a couple of weeks ago Andrew worked with me in MCS, and has been developing this Read More...
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