John R. Durant's WebLog
Blog of "The" Office Developer
Another Cool Outlook Add-in using VSTO 2005
Yesterday, I mentioned the My.Blogs Outlook add-in sample and the accompanying article. Today I...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/17/2005
VSTO 2005 Launch- Ready to Rock
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4bb5378-7253-4212-b419-28ea6f3afdea&Di...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/07/2005
Microsoft Announces 'Live Software' Initiative
Here are just my notes from the announcements today: Bill Gates just announced Microsoft's latest...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/01/2005
LINQ, Anders Hejlsberg, and Wrox press' SharpZipLib
Call it midichlorians and a mini-convergence of the force. I don't care. But, the fact is that I...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/25/2005
Fired up about LINQ
I was pretty pumped when we introduced Generics with the new version of the .NET Framework...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/19/2005
Interesting Tech sites and Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick
I have had a hectic couple of weeks trying to catch up after my surgery. Thanks for you patience...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/18/2005
Fixing links in Office 2003 Documents
It is common for companies to have loads and loads of documents stored up. It is equally common for...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/10/2005
Microsoft Word XML Watermarks
I have been working on a solution that includes the auto-generation of Word documents using XML, and...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/30/2005
Blog-enable your Office application, Gwen Stefani & the African Dung Beetle
As the many readers of my blog know, I'm all about blogs (thanks to Scoble and Chris Kunicki for...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/27/2005
VSTO 2005- Floating vs. Inline Controls in Word 2003 Printing
One of the requests that comes around every now and again is this: Can you make it so that when a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/26/2005
Outlook Reading Pane and Charles Petzold
I am working on a cool Outlook add-in, and it involves knowing if the Outlook Reading Pane is...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/22/2005
VSTO Outlook Add-in Sample
While answering some posts in the NG's, I found one by Jay Harlow, Outlook MVP. He mentioned how...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/22/2005
Word XML Document Protection
Document Protection in Word's XML file format: it's not the kind of thing that inspires poets, but...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/06/2005
Databinding in a UserControl vs. WinForm
Alright, I answered another question in a newsgroup, but the question posed, while technical, gets...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/31/2005
Word XML and Page Count
I recently saw a post on the microsoft.public.office.xml news group wherein was asked: -------- When...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/29/2005
Overriding Word Commands on the Horizontal Scrollbar
One of our partners asked around on an internal discussion alias looking for a way to disable the...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/19/2005
Migrating from VBA to VSTO Part 2
Regular readers of my blog will rightly wonder where Part 1 of this topic is. Well, I didn't write...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2005
SharePoint podCast on OfficeZealot
OfficeZealot kingpin,Chris Kunicki, interviews Jan Tielens about SharePoint. Jan is from Belgium, a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/15/2005
.NET Control -> ActiveX Control hosted by Office
On Sue Mosher's amazing Outlook site, there has been a discussion about creating ActiveX controls in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/10/2005
WordProcessingML and Tables, CALS
We recently had a customer inquire about a WordProcessingML -> CALS conversion. Well, I had never...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/09/2005
WordML and Panose- Yes, Panose!
I have learned so much about Office via the XML formats in Office 2003 that I probably would have...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/08/2005
Visual Studio 2005- Improved coding in the IDE
Truth be told, I have never used the Bookmarks feature in Visual Studio 2002 or 2003 or a lot of...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/03/2005
Linux the dove? Microsoft the hawk? Whatever. We just want dinner.
As recently as last year I would occasionally do searches on the Internet looking for news items...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/29/2005
Insert Word XML docs into another easily- I'm back from vacation!
OK- I am back from my long camping vacation. 5 sons, 4,100 miles, mini-van, tents, hospital. That's...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/15/2005
Visual Studio Tools for Office podCast
Well, I'm on vacation, and I am trying to not do much on the computer. I just finished driving 2,100...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/01/2005
Hyperlink Fixing in Microsoft Word with .NET
Here's the deal: you have a load of Word docs with hyperlinks. Some of the docs are old. You need...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/22/2005
My Object functionality for C#
Juval Lowy delivers "My" functionality for C# (scroll down the alphbetical list). If you are new to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/15/2005
VSTO Outook and Tech Ed 2005
It's been exhilarating and tiring to be at Tech Ed. Between Monday morning and when I went to bed...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/09/2005
Visual Studio Tools for Office- Outlook
Tech Ed 2005 has already had news: during Steve Balmer's keynote was the announcement that we have...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/06/2005
Microsoft Office Open XML File Formats announced
It's a watershed moment for Office programmability: We have officially announced that the next...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/02/2005
Office 2003 and Web services- Reason Enough to Upgrade
I was alerted to this article today by Velle, one of my colleagues at Microsoft: Word, Excel...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/26/2005
Manage your Manager
I have learned (through the school of hard knocks) that managing one's manager is vital to achieving...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/26/2005
Bill Gates and Office 12, Outlook Thread Compressor
Bill Gates spoke about the next generation of Office products at the CEO Summit. If there is one...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/26/2005
Microsoft Office 12, RSS WebPart, stuff
Here's an article with public statements about Office 12: Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/24/2005
Office XML End Users and Search Nirvana
Found this book: Upgrader's Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003. I don't know if it's any good,but...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/20/2005
WordProcessingML in French + Office XML Transform Depot
I found this site that explains WordProcessingML in French. I love the intro: "nous allons essayer...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/20/2005