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Musings of a former Office Developer Evangelist

If you haven't heard, Microsoft has made changes to the PerformancePoint product alignment....

Date: 02/02/2009

Well, it took the better part of a year, but my second book, Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007:...

Date: 08/02/2008

For folks who want to play with our Business Intelligence technologies and don't want to bother with...

Date: 04/02/2008

Okay, this was a rough one. The challenge was that a customer had Excel spreadsheets where we needed...

Date: 11/10/2007

Here's a fun mental exercise - on the one hand, we have the "everyone is lost but me" syndrome,...

Date: 10/26/2007

I know, the mind boggles - a developer writing about security... While I was doing the research for...

Date: 10/25/2007

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" I use this quote a lot to warn against...

Date: 10/23/2007

A few years ago, if you asked Microsoft how to build a scorecard, they may have shrugged. Then we...

Date: 10/08/2007

As follow-up to the "hook InfoPath to a database" demo, here I'm taking a step back to a simpler...

Date: 09/28/2007

Analysis Services has been part of SQL Server for a while, but it's underappreciated by most. I've...

Date: 09/24/2007

I wrote this post on Joel On Software in 2004 in response to a newbie asking about EDI. Since then I...

Date: 09/24/2007

Okay, I'm going to try a different approach on the "why do I care about InfoPath?" issue. I recorded...

Date: 09/20/2007

I give a lot of product briefings, and of course often get caught between what I know and what I can...

Date: 02/27/2007

Simon said: "Then you find out its not part of the office suite." To be fair, this is somewhat true....

Date: 02/26/2007

I recently wrote a book on InfoPath 2007. What I find most amazing about the book is that it's...

Date: 02/25/2007

It took me a while to figure out how to do the InfoPath/webservice thing starting with an InfoPath...

Date: 11/08/2005

Argh. Classic Schroedinbug. I had an outer join between two tables to populate an InfoPath...

Date: 10/20/2005

This MSDN article shows how to implement a SharePoint web part that can act as a consumer or a...

Date: 04/27/2005

I recently needed to create an InfoPath form that enabled the user to post the data to another user...

Date: 04/25/2005

Over the next few days I'll be posting a series of articles covering my trials and tribulations in...

Date: 06/04/2004

InfoPath SP1 (public beta at the link; final due out this summer) includes a lot of cool changes,...

Date: 04/25/2004

Lots of samples flying around - I think we released new versions of just about everything we publish...

Date: 04/18/2004

  1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text...

Date: 04/17/2004

I bought Scot's book hot off the presses, since it's the first major SharePoint 2003 book. When I...

Date: 04/17/2004

The trebuchet was the world's most powerful weapon for three hundred years, until it was superceded...

Date: 04/14/2004

The centipede was happy, quite, Until the toad for fun Said, 'Pray which leg comes after which?'...

Date: 04/09/2004

... or “Why is my client so fat?” InfoPath is really cool. To some degree, it actually...

Date: 03/16/2004