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How to start building solutions on the 2007 Microsoft Office System

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ODC rocked the house!
The Office Developer Conference finished on Wednesday and it was unbelievable! Jay Paulus, Director of the Office Platform Strategy team kicked it off to a great start. Following that, Bill Gates talked saying: "Making Office into a platform is very important Read More...
These new resources will knock your socks off!
There were several resources announced at the Office Developer Conference on Monday that if you are a developer or architect, are just going to knock your socks off. The great line-up consists of: - OBA Sample Application Kits for SAP and PeopleSoft - Read More...
ODC…Less than 1 month away!
Well I haven't written in a while because I've been deep in preparation for the Office Developer Conference which I personally think is going to be a blast! If you guys haven't signed, you better soon, because it's going to be an event you definitely Read More...
Go To Class!
Collection 6071 : Developing Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 In this online collection composed of six courses, you will learn how to develop customized Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. Topics Read More...
One Great Conference!
What's the single best conference to go to where you'll get up to speed on OBAs and Office 2007 products and technologies? Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008 Feb 10-13 2008 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California This conference Read More...
SAP integration with MOSS
There is a lot of really powerful integration between SAP and MOSS and the awareness about this is really, for some reason, quite low. We've talked about integrating LOB data into SharePoint with the Business Data Catalog but there are some specific capabilities Read More...
Authoring with the BDC just got EASIER!
The latest and greatest MOSS SDK release just went LIVE with an exciting new tool: The BDC Application Definition Editor! This tool abstracts the way you create entities in the Application Definition File by giving you an easy to use UI. Features include: Read More...
Custom User Site Provisioning Solution
The white paper and code sample for Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , written by Sonya Zidek, is now live and up for grabs! Here's a short summary: This white paper examines some of the new Read More...
HOLs to the Masses!
I know I'm a little late announcing this, but I still wanted to get this out there. There are some great new Virtual Hands-On Labs available on MSDN, especially some really cool new VSTO ones: MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Read More...
Need Help?
Over the past few weeks while enjoying the summer weather here in Seattle (finally!), I've been busy fly fishing and preparing for a new puppy. I'm not really good at either and so I've been spending a lot of time looking through resources trying to get Read More...
Love IBF?
Do you love the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) but feel at a loss now that it is not supported by Office 2007? I've been working with Scot Hillier and Bhushan Nene to provide you with a white paper complete with sample code on how you can use the Read More...
So what’s the fuss about the new Open XML file formats?
You've probably been hearing about new Office 2007 file formats and that the fact that they are based on Open XML is a great benefit. But why? Why should you as developers care? Are they nothing more than just a compressed file format? Actually, they're Read More...
Excel on the Server?
Yes! There is such a thing and it's an actual, server-grade, supported product! It's part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it's the published version of an Excel spreadsheet which gives you the ability to share business intelligence around Read More...
Everyone Loves More Code Samples!
Since I've last blogged, we've released 7 more How-To's on the Office Developer How-To Center giving you a total of 9 code samples with accompanying videos, articles, and resources. The topics range from the new Open XML file formats presented by MVP Read More...
Mr. Task Pane, meet Mrs. Ribbon
In my previous posts, I showed you how to create a custom ribbon and how to create a custom Task Pane using VSTO, but how do you tie these two together? I've created a solution to show you how to do that. It's based on the scenario of a travel agency Read More...
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