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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...
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...
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...
Word 2003 CDK/SDK
It's been a long time coming…but a week or so back the Word 2003 SDK finally went live. Back when Office 2003 was at Beta 2 stage there was a Word Content Development Kit (CDK) Beta available with information about developing Word solutions. Some of the Read More...
Hosting Windows Forms controls in the Office Task Pane
OK, here's a question I hear frequently: I want a richer user interface in my Smart Document task pane than the default controls allow. I know I can add ActiveX controls in there, but we've standardised on .NET as our development platform now. Can I create Read More...
Choosing between InfoPath and Smart Document Solutions
I was asked recently about when it would be appropriate to use InfoPath vs. Smart Documents. It's an interesting question as there is quite a degree of overlap between these technologies, so here are my rules of thumb for choosing between them... Consider Read More...
Smart Documents @ TechEd
So, TechEd is almost over for another year, and yesterday afternoon I finally got to deliver the first of my two sessions. I was delighted with the positive feedback and interest in Smart Document solutions. I'll be responding to a number of the questions Read More...
Help! My CommandBarButton events stop firing
This is perhaps the most frequently asked question I hear when writing managed COM Addins or Smart Docs. You’ve wired up an event handler to catch button clicks of custom menu items. They work for the first few clicks but then mysteriously stop Read More...
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