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October 27-30th in the Los Angeles Conference Center, LA is where you want to be. Registration for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 has just opened. You know the deal by now: "The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software
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In my last couple of posts ( here and here ), I've been talking about the goodness that is Word content controls. In particular in my last post I talked about a quick and dirty VB application I built to allow me to manipulate Word documents, attach Custom
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In my last post I referenced an excellent blog post on modonovan’s blog which talks you through how to use Word Content controls to map to custom XML. This is a really powerful concept – particularly for generating documents on the server – as there’s
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I really like the concept of content controls in Word 2007 for a couple of reasons; robustness and data-binding. They give you very granular control over which areas of a document can be modified, what content is allowed and whether those areas can be
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Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos Actually they’ve probably been there for a while and just escaped my notice. My bad. I was lucky enough to attend the conference back in March and then I was part of the UK Office DevCon in June where I delivered
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It saved me a bit of time at least. Back to my SmartPhone application for tracking business mileage . I’d written the client. I’d created the database. I’d done the stored procs. I’d crafted a web service (or two in fact, one to submit the data and one
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For those of you who joined us in Canary Wharf on Tuesday evening to see Ian , Paul and me talking about Excel Services, Forms Server, SharePoint and server-side document generation, I thought I’d post the resources links from my slide deck here. (The
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I can’t see it on the MSDN website yet but if you missed out on the various Roadshow dates we’ve run over the last month or so we’re putting on one last and final one at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on the 3 rd August. Keep an eye on our upcoming events
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Everyone at work has been ribbing me over a little mobile application I’ve been developing. I don’t get it – I think it’s great. I carry this phone around with me everywhere. Once in a while I make / receive a call on it but it can do so much more. I
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As you’ll have gathered from a test post earlier, I now know how to blog from Word 2007 and it’s really, really nice. Of course my reference point is not that great but I do think the ability to use a very familiar tool (in this case Word) and just hit
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Jeez - I can't believe how long it is since I wrote anything. The MSDN Roadshow has completely absorbed me (and a few others) - you just forget there's a world outside! (By the way, if you were hoping to attend the Roadshow and couldn't get a place -
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I was asked at last night's event if it will be possible to work with the actions / task pane in Outlook in the 2007 release of Office. The good news is that custom task panes are supported in Access, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. Here's
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A big thank you to everyone that turned up last night to hear me talk about the 2007 Microsoft Office System from a developer's perspective. And a big apology as well for the pregnant pauses as my overworked laptop struggled to cope with host OS + 2 Windows
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