September 2004 - Posts

• Keeping the Microsoft Office Developer Center Fresh

  You will notice that the Office Developer Center has a new face! The good news is that most of these little parts on the page come "free of charge" if you will. They are little widgets we can install on the page and bring it to life. You will find blog Read More... Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:56 PM by johnrdurant | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• New Microsoft Office Development Material

  Well, I am at home convalescing, but my team carries on in my absence. Here are some goodies we published today: Overview of Office 2003 Developer Tools and Programs One of two articles, this one gives you a good intro to some of the tools for Office Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:11 PM by johnrdurant | 11 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Developer for Microsoft Office System at risk once again

  I missed some days writing because I was in a collision with a car last week. I was on my Trek 5200 wearing my best gear when it went down (bike and all were destroyed). I recall nothing of the accident, but there were loads of witnesses, apparently. Read More... Posted Monday, September 27, 2004 8:48 PM by johnrdurant | 8 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• It's a publishing Frenzy for Microsoft Office products and technologies

  We are in a Publishing Frenzy. Here are things we just pushed live: Getting Started with the Research Service Development Extras Toolkit for Office 2003 Editions Introduction to the Office 2003 Research Services Class Library Building Wizard Data Provider Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:36 PM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger and the mysterious Add-in capability

  Sometimes, I get really confused. It's not always my fault. So, we made a strategic, key decision to split Windows Messenger from MSN Messenger so that Messenger would be forked to two key audiences: the former to corporate customers, the latter for mass Read More... Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 9:13 PM by johnrdurant | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Microsoft Office and BMC software

  I came across this case study showing how Office 2003 and SharePoint were used to help BMC sales people manage their sales cycle, not from a contact management standpoint, but with respect to how their agreements with clients. Why I like this one particularly Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:03 PM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Microsoft Office Developer Guidance

  One of my colleagues here at Microsoft wrote something that was really so overdue: a sweeping yet highly detailed overview of the world of Office development: Office 2003 Document: Overview of Developer Technologies . Another friend and OfficeZealot guru, Read More... Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:29 PM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Smart Tag Tools for Developing in Microsoft Office

  If you have read my blog over the past months, you will have noticed that I love smart tag technology. I recently announced that we made public a download of the Smart Tag Tools. It's got really great stuff. Today, we published an article that shows how Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:33 AM by johnrdurant | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System

• Microsoft Office Smart Tags and Searching Outlook Data

  I wrote another article: Search Inbox Data Using Smart Tags in Word 2003 . Basically, I wrote this because I love Outlook integration, and I wanted something that was not built into Office 2003. I wrote a smart tag that searches my inbox data in Exchange Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:41 PM by johnrdurant | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System