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Want to create Office documents on the fly?
Having trouble manipulating Office documents or creating them on the fly? The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) allows you to effectively work with Open XML packages. Using the API, you can generate and manipulate Word 2007 documents, Excel Read More...
Canadian Heroes Community Launch
Over the next several months Technical communities around the world are hosting Community Launch events focusing on technical dives of Microsoft Windows Server 2008™, Visual Studio 2008™, and SQL Server 2008™. Community leaders have been trained directly Read More...
realDEVELOPMENT_07 Canadian Tour for Web Developers
The realDEVELOPMENT_07 tour is coming to a Canadian city near you, and the focus is helping you be successful in your day to day jobs. This half day event will provide you with cool tips, tricks and tools to help you tackle the real Web development challenges Read More...
On Innovation and the Process of Coming Up with Great Ideas
It seems to me that almost every technology publication these days is talking about how innovative Company X is, how non-innovative Company Y is and how innovation is the difference between what makes a company good or great. I would also argue that public Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been released today! Here is the link if you want to download the bits . I'd highly recommend the Virtual PC image - if you opt for the full install, you should use a test machine, don't install it on a production machine Read More...
The Gadget VS Gadget Competition Is Now On!
On April 18th, I hinted about a "special offer". On May 1st, John Bristowe posted resources and guidance on how to build a gadget. Now the cat's out of the bag - the Gadget VS Gadget competition has now launched and gives you both the opportunity to build Read More...
Pick Your Favorite MSDN Code Awards Nominees!
Thank you to everyone who entered our MSDN Code Awards program! We went through the difficult process of picking five nominees for the individual and team categories - we received a lot of really great entries. What really struck me was how inspiring Read More...
Michael Amanfi on Windows Workflow Foundation and Team Workflow
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat with Michael Amanfi on the roof of my building about his work with Windows Workflow Foundation and specifically, his community project called Team Workflow - a workflow authoring and process automation tool built Read More...
Windows Live and Vista Gadgets
Are you interested in developing gadgets for Windows Live and Windows Vista ? If so - we have an offer coming up that will definitely interest you in a big way! Gadgets are mini-applications which allow users quick access to information from applications, Read More...
Microsoft Dynamics Screencasts
A little while back, I blogged about composite applications (aka application "mashups") - how important it is to think about the components of your applications, and how to use existing frameworks as a shortcut to reach business goals. For example, does Read More...
.NET Framework 3.0 Webcasts Now Available
In case you missed it, we posted all the .NET Framework 3.0 webcasts (including the .NET Framework 3.0 overview presentation with Christian Beauclair) on our Ignite Your Code website . If you are interested in Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Read More...
Developers Night in Canada (DNIC) User Group Tour
In the next couple of weeks, John Bristowe, Christian Beauclair, and I will start travelling to a city near you for the Developer Night in Canada (DNIC) User Group Tour: The Exciting Adventures of the Microsoft Application Platform Developer . We will Read More...
Beginner Developer Learning Center
I can remember when I first started programming - I was about 11 years old, my father bought me a Commodore 64 and I took on the challenge of learning BASIC. At the time, the only documentation I had to help me in my learning process was the manual that Read More...
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