September 2006 - Posts

Miscellaneous Office-related links
30 September 06 03:00 PM

I'm in Paris, getting ready for another MOSS deep-dive lab this week, and I just went through all my RSS feeds. Here are a few cool things I came across from the last couple of days ... Speaking of MOSS, Bill Simser posted a link the the European European Read More...

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Sorting out your VSTO options
28 September 06 09:03 PM

The release of the VSTO 2005 SE Beta ("Cypress") has given developers a way to build application-level add-ins for either Office 2003 or Office 2007. But the SE version is not a superset of the VSTO V3 ("Orcas") functionality, and some people (me, for Read More...

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Munich MOSS Workshop
27 September 06 03:00 PM

We're putting on a MOSS developer workshop at the Munich MTC this week, and I've been too busy to blog much while we're here. But I took a few photos today so I thought I'd share them: Dinner this evening was at Erik's, a cool little Italian restaurant Read More...

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English as a first language
27 September 06 07:25 AM

We Americans are a bit spoiled when it comes to software localization issues. (And a few other things. :-)) Most of the products we use are from American companies -- my employer in Redmond, for instance -- so we can just stick with the language defaults Read More...

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Office Blogs
19 September 06 11:25 AM

Now that Office 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh is out, it's time to get serious about learning Office 2007. And the best way to learn Office quickly is to go straight to the horse's mouth, as they say in my home state of Montana. In other words, talk to the Read More...

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Mind-blowing Mindmaps
16 September 06 01:40 PM

One of the cool things about being a technical evangelist is that you get to talk to partners (i.e., software developers who work with Microsoft technology) about the technical details of the work they're doing. Sometimes we're teaching them what's new Read More...

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Beta 2 Tech Refresh
13 September 06 01:20 PM

Tomorrow the Beta 2 Tech Refresh build of the 2007 Microsoft Office System will be available for public download. Like many folks here on campus, I'm already running this build, and it's a solid upgrade from Beta 2. There have been a bunch of bug fixes Read More...

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The Future of OBAs
11 September 06 06:05 PM

For a great example of the potential of Office Business Applications , check out the Accruent demo that's now up on Channel 9. It's a recording of Ben Riga's presentation at the Worldwide Partner Conference this summer, in which he covers a wide variety Read More...

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Open XML Revision Tracking
07 September 06 08:52 PM

If you've ever worked on documents that require a great deal of collaborative editing -- contracts, documentation, marketing materials, etc. -- you've probably used revision tracking. The ability to track what was added, edited, or deleted from a document, Read More...

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Using XmlSchemaSet to validate WordprocessingML
07 September 06 08:09 AM

Wouter Van Vugt has posted some useful information about the issues and options for validating XML schemas in .NET applications: Validating Open XML documents with System.Xml - A WordProcessingML sample . If you're writing code that works with schemas Read More...

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This isn't your father's Sharepoint!
05 September 06 03:12 PM

I never would have expected something like this to be the first web content management system to go live on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007! Thanks to Mark Harrison for pointing this out. As Mark points out on his blog, you can read more about Read More...

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What's New for Visio Developers
01 September 06 11:33 AM

Saul Candib has a great 2-part series on MSDN covering Visio development: What's New for Developers in Visio 2007 (Part 1 of 2) What's New for Developers in Visio 2007 (Part 2 of 2) When we put on the Ascend workshops for Office "12" developers earlier Read More...

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