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So, I just bought 5 copies of Office 2007 for a friend of mine in the good land of Minnesota. He’s upgrading all of his home computers and those for his kids scattered about the country. One of the first things he’ll notice is the new Office Fluent UI, Read More...
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As I spent a ton of time at Tech Ed, I was super impressed by the immense amount of interest in Office 2010. I know the excitement will only grow, and one of the best ways for you, the devoted Office Developer, to get inside, in-depth, in-person exposure Read More...
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TechEd 2009 is a done deal. I wanted to toss out a few observations from the event. Here’s what really stood out: 1) The overall mood was pleasantly up-beat and the attendance was solid. The economic times have hit every budget everywhere, but the tempo Read More...
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I recent wrote (“ Twitter from Excel 2007 ”) about how Chandoo (Plus JP) caught my attention with their quirky take on updating Twitter from Excel. In there, I said I would lay down an expanded, more useful version. In so doing, I believe I have also Read More...
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Many of the investments developers make in Office 2007 are version-durable (read: they are likely to endure into the next version of Office). Some of the Office 2007 technologies that are so appealing for business productivity solutions are the new Office Read More...
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Chad Z. Hower, aka "Kudzu", A Microsoft colleague has created a VSTO application that lets you analyze Wiimote motions for the Nintendo Wii: http://www.kudzuworld.com/blogs/tech/20070819.aspx Yeah, I know it's not for the XBox, but as Steve Ballmer said Read More...
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I am running Windows Vista (liking it more every day), and a Windows Update failed. I received this error message, and I did not know what it meant. Here's a little trick to use that will give you the error message description. Let's say my error was Read More...
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Whew! We're working hard on Visual Studio Codename "Orcas", and that has kept me extraordinarily busy. One of the things I have been working a lot on has been our cool SharePoint workflow tools in VSTO Orcas. Using these tools makes it a lot easier to Read More...
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I have been intending to mention a great article by Robert Bogue about getting started with SharePoint workflow development: Wrangling SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio "SharePoint and Workflow may be the most powerful combination since chocolate Read More...
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My colleague, Darryn Lavery, just finished the update to his very popular VSTO 2005 deployment paper. This update includes information specific to our VSTO 2005 Second Edition update we released last year. Here's the paper: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Read More...
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The Office Migration Planning Manager tool is now final and up on the Microsoft download center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13580cd7-a8bc-40ef-8281-dd2c325a5a81&DisplayLang=en This tool is pretty useful if you are an Read More...
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On one of our internal Microsoft discussion lists someone asked for a feature comparison between Office 2003 and Office 2007. One of our great support engineers sent a tidy list of articles that while not doing the direct comparisons do give great overviews Read More...
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I have to admit that I am being steadily won over by Windows Vista. I was running pre-RTM builds, and while I recognized some pleasing improvements, I was not exactly overwhelmed. I hoped that RTM would hold some surprises. Now, I have been running RTM Read More...
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Let's get honest: it routinely feels like a shot in the dark. Here's the scenario: Someone in management is legitimately trying to organize resources and push some projects forward. He or she may be pitching the project to an executive or at least someone Read More...
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I'm cleaning up my inbox, and I have a whole mess of odds and ends (some just product announcements) that I don't know what to do with, so I am going to just dump them in one post and put it out of my mind. Here they are in no particular order: MSBee Read More...
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