The "Voice" of Office Development
July 2004 - Posts
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One of the best discoveries I made back in my Office XP development era was the Dsofile.exe tool . It's a handly little executable that allows you to get programmatic access to the document properies of an Office document (we ought to write a .NET version Read More...
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Sometimes, a topic comes up in the newsgroups that one finds very gripping, riveting, compelling, and spellbinding (OK- that's overstating it). A recent one for me was a question posed in the microsoft.public.msdn.general newsgroup on July 21. Here is Read More...
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Forgive me, I am reminiscing today. So, I am working on a little skunk-works project (that I may write up some day, who knows), and I bumped back into the Exchange storage system with which I became so very, very familiar back in 2000. The memories started Read More...
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One of the things that has been missing in the IM story for enterprise customers is that ability to easily connect to the largest IM providers in a secure and orderly fashion, irrespective of which IM provider is being used. Today, there is a big announcement Read More...
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The word has been out for a few days about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 beta, but the Office Developer Center page is now live. Get more information by going to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/gettingstarted/vsto05beta/default.aspx Read More...
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Wiley published an exhaustive reference book for Office 2003 users late last year, but I just found out that you can get it as an ebook as well. This I did not catch for some reason. I am intrigued by the ebook idea, and I have bought a few technical Read More...
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OK gang, I struggled with leaving paradise. Tonga is the most beautiful place on earth. The people are the most friendly and interesting, and the food is fantastic. I'll sneak in a photo when I can. Thanks for being patient while I was away. We needed Read More...
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