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PDC 2008 Registration Open
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 Read More...
VSTO Power Tools
If you do any Office development, then you need to check out the VSTO Power Tools v1.0.0.0 which include: Open XML Package Editor Ribbon IDs Tool Window Office Custom UI Manager Office Interop API Extensions SharePoint Feature Sweeper SharePoint Workflow Read More...
Word 2007 Content Controls
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 Read More...
Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos now Online
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 Read More...
InfoPath saved my life (well, almost)
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 Read More...
Another MSDN Roadshow Date [UK]
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 Read More...
MileageTracker
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 Read More...
VSTO vs Cypress
Cypress is a fully supported free add-on to Visual Studio to allow you to build Office 2007 applications with Visual Studio 2005. VSTO “Orcas” will provide additional support including Excel workbook and Word document support and visual designers for Read More...
Last night's MSDN TechTalk: "Developer Introduction to Office 12"
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 Read More...
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