September 2006 - Posts

• Outlook 2007 and the NavigationModule

  I feel empathy for the person who is tackling Outlook development for the first time. Thanks to a number of things, including the advent of a solid Outlook managed developer tools story in VSTO 2005, that number is growing. Nevertheless, the overall corpus Read More... Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:46 PM by johnrdurant | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO

• Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta: the Polar Shift

  (I'm missing my friend, Chris Kunicki, and his sure-footed instincts about Office development. He's beening pursuing philanthropic interests full-time and will be for as long as I can tell, so he's no longer a direct part of the Office dev community. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:35 PM by johnrdurant | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO

• Time/Resources/Features

  Being a PM at Microsoft boils down to being a project manager. Some PMs are really technical while others are very design focused. But, the bottom line is that we are all tasked with delivering software features that will make customers happy and thus Read More... Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:20 PM by johnrdurant | 6 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Office System, VSTO