May 2004 - Posts

• MyTechEd.Day3.Title="WordProcessingML"

  Yesterday was so busy, I failed to get the time to put up a blog entry. Anyway, here's what happened. I spent some time in the Cabana area networking with some attendees. It's interesting how frequently the people at TechEd express such delight about Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 12:49 PM by johnrdurant | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• MyTechEd.Day2.Title="SmartTags"

  My second day at TechEd was energizing. I met with a lot of people at the booth, and the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) involvement in the keynote really boosted interest. It has also generated more interest in smart tags . Smart tags is one of those Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:29 AM by johnrdurant | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• MyTechEd.Day1.Title="The Gang's all here"

  Coming to these shows is especially satisfying because it is like a family reunion. My old posse is here, and we pick up where we left off since the last show (except we all look a little older each time). Greetings to my friends Chris Kunicki, Charles Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:41 AM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• FrontPage code snippets and Bilngual Translation Service

  Just today, we pushed a couple of new items live on MSDN. The first ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_fpCustomizingSnippets.asp ) is a pretty useful technique for creating code snippet files in Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:45 PM by johnrdurant | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• XMLNamespaces and Word 2003

  The schema library in Word 2003 is where so much is happening for developers. While some end-users will venture into the schema library, most should not care what is in there. A well-architected Word XML solution should keep the inner-workings tidy and Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:02 AM by johnrdurant | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• SharePoint and GetUserCollectionFromSite

  So, I'm messing around with the Windows SharePoint Services Web services it exposes. They are legion, and they are very, very cool. One of the Web methods I needed to call for an app I am writing gets the users that have been given perms for a Document Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:23 AM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• WordML and FAQ resources

  On the internal DLs and NGs, I am finding that some people are wondering where to get good info and tools for working with WordML. Here is a list of some resources. Please post feedback for things you think I should mention (only WordML resources, please): Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:24 AM by johnrdurant | 9 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• SharePoint sites and SharePointTracking

  So, today I was trying to figure out how to alter or control the list of Workspaces that appear in my Shared Workspaces task pane in Word/Excel/PowerPoint. I figured the registry would be a good place to check, and I wasn't wrong. Fortunately, the information Read More... Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 2:23 PM by johnrdurant | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Smart Tag List alii

  Smart tag list files are one of the cleverest things to show up in Office, and I wish more developers would use them. What I love is that despite that smart tags do not work exactly how I want them to (I think using \\\ the triple-backslash to add cascading Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:48 AM by johnrdurant | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System