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Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:36 AM

My Last Post

Friends, this is my last post. I've enjoyed being a part of the Office developer community for the past 4 years and meeting everyone over the past 10 years from the Microsoft side of the fence. My next part of the journey will be from the other side of
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:21 PM

OpenXML Package Editor RTW with VSTO Powertools!

Back when we were working heavily on the OpenXML file format developer tools, many of us were using zip and Notepad to edit the OpenXML files. Tom Underhill from the Office graphics team made all our lives easier with a VS package for editing OpenXML
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Monday, January 28, 2008 11:04 AM

VSTA Webcast - How to Integrate VSTA 2.0

Gary Depue from Summit Software presented a webcast last Wednesday on How to Integrate VSTA 2.0 . I'm still getting up to speed here in the new team, so I missed it, but I'll be sure to go back and watch in the next couple of days. It's tough being new
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Friday, January 18, 2008 6:04 PM

VBA and Office 14

There's been some discussion on this thread on Slashdot, ( updated ) which started from this article in The Register UK . To be clear, Microsoft is not replacing VBA with VSTA or VSTO in Office for Windows . (though VSTA and VSTO are still important developer
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:13 AM

The only constant at Microsoft

Change. It's really the only constant here at MS. I've made a change. I'm no longer working in the Office Team, I've moved on to the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) team. Anyone who has met me professionally knows that I'm a big fan of .NET,
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:48 PM

Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008

I just got a mail from Chris Bryant (formerly Access Dev, now Marketeer) announcing the 2008 Office Dev Con. I spoke at the last Office Dev Con, along with Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, and Tristan Davis on OpenXML Development. I can't yet promise I'll
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:49 AM

Open XML Discussion on Channel9

Charles Torre sat down with Art Leonard , Brian Jones , Doug Mahugh and me to discuss Open XML on Channel9 . It's a two part session, Part1 is here . Brian and Doug did most of the talking and focused broadly on the background around the file format.
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Monday, June 04, 2007 4:47 PM

Open XML API CTP Released!

I've been quiet on the blog these past few months. I've been juggling work, a new baby (and a toddler) and some remodel plans, so extra-curricular activities like blogging have taken a back seat. But today at TechEd 2007, we released a Community Technology
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Monday, March 19, 2007 11:24 AM

OpenXML Meetup

Doug has posted some pictures of a meetup we had last week with the OpenXML developers group: http://www.mahugh.com/images/blog/2007/03/15/openxmldevelopers.jpg That's me, in the back, to the left of Brian Jones (The) trying to be seen over some of the
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:59 PM

Surprise – HowTos for working with OpenXML Workbooks!

I just got an email from Erika that read "I have a surprise for you!" and included a link to her latest blog post . Seems Ken Getz (who wrote the code snippets ) repurposed 5 of the snippets into a couple of Visual walkthroughs with code. Ken's a great
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Monday, January 29, 2007 8:24 AM

Open XML Code Snippets on Channel 9 - UPDATE

I recorded a screencast for Channel9 last week in which I walk you through a few of the code snippets we shipped for working with Office Open XML files using .NET 3.0. I take you through three snippets: 1. How to find the officeDocument part, or "start
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Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:47 AM

She's Actual Size

I mentioned that we were expecting a baby girl anytime. Well, Molly Ryan Boske arrived Thrusday morning. mother and baby are fine. She weighed in at a whopping 10lbs 1oz, which reminds me of the They Might Be Giants Song, She's Actual Size . Microsoft
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:17 PM

Open XML File Format Snippets RTW!

We've released the final version of the code snippets I told you about back in June . These are the same snippets, updated with the final schemas and namespaces that we used in the shipping version of 2007 Office System. There are 40 scenarios that enable
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:24 AM

(almost) Everything Shipped!

Okay, I've been out for a couple of days, taking some time after shipping Office 2007 and getting ready for another product delivery (our second child, a girl, due anytime ). While I was busy getting baby stuff out of storage, the rest of the company
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Monday, November 06, 2006 8:09 AM

Office System 2007 is Golden!

We signed off on the final build of Office 2007! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-062007OfficeRTMPR.mspx
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