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For over a decade I have enjoyed so very much being a leading voice for custom solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office. The last 7 years of that time have been as a Microsoft employee gl...
As you all know the SharePoint Conference last year in Las Vegas was a great show (here are links to broadcasts of several of our sessions). I followed the show with a ticket to see U2s 360 concert (u...
So, I was at TechEd 2010 talking a lot about Office 2010 solutions development last week and love was in the airmostly because I gave out hundreds of t-shirts with our www.iheartmacros.com URL on them...
Open XML was a big part of my first session at TechEd 2010 called, "Office 2010: Developing the Next Wave of Productivity Solutions". The thing that gets the biggest reaction is the Open XML SD...
I’ve talked with with many dozens of customers here at TechEd 2010 about Office 2010 and shown them a lot of demos at the kiosk. As they arrive I hand them a www.iheartmacros.com t-shirt (hugely...
MSDN now features a special site (also accessible via www.iheartmacros.com) dedicated to Microsoft Office VBA - an important part of the Office 2010 value.
The site presents a clear path for t...
I just finished a whirlwind swing through Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, and finally Vienna Austria. I've already blogged about the first three cities, but this last one is the focus of this post. I w...
A number of people have found my post about getting started with SQL Azure pretty useful. But, it's all worthless if it doesn't add up to user value. Database are like potential energy in physics-it's...
I've been running at a fast pace for the past few days, so I'm going to add a few posts here to catch up. Day 3 of the DevDays event in the Netherlands was a success. I delivered a session on "Open X...
I delivered a session today that describes what's new in Office 2010 for solution developers. It's a session that I have evolved over the past year. My core demos have also evolved, and I'm pleased wi...
Nearly everyone starts learning anything new by beginning with something simple and adding incremental knowledge. One of the biggest challenges with Windows Azure and SQL Azure is that the simple begi...
It's been an eventful day here at Microsoft DevDays 2010, and the show hasn't even officially started! First item of business is to get to a hotel for rest and get some great food-not necessarily in t...
Here's a quick update. I was down at a nice reception at the hotel for the conference speakers when a door is violently thrown open and a guys goes running through and down the hall. Following closely...
I speak with customers every day about the productivity solutions they build using Microsoft Office. Rarely now do my conversations not include a discussion of Open XML. This is because it is such a p...
Readers of the blog know that SharePoint Conference 2009 had some pretty memorable highlights. Now, we're excited to announce that five key Office developer sessions are now freely viewable online. He...
In the next few posts I'll roll out a little project for Excel that uses Open XML and LINQ. The scenario for this little Office solution has to do with my massive collection of music. I've collected o...
The Office Developer Atlas interactive training tool (built using Silverlight technology) is a great way for you to come up to speed on what developing productivity solutions with Office is all about....
We introduced Excel XML Map objects in Excel 2003. We carried those forward into Excel 2007 and, of course, into Excel 2010. I recently stumbled on an Excel developer blog by Roy Maclean, and I was re...
We just published a new video on MSDN that provides a great starting point for understanding what we're talking about when we speak about "Office 2010 productivity solutions". You can watch the vide...
I track some information in Excel, and one of the columns is for a link to some location (blogs, Web sites, etc.). One of the things is that I don't want the URL to appear as it creates display issues...
Im often asked for helpful content links for content around VBA, Microsoft Office Backstage view, and Ribbon. Heres a collection: VBA Video Title URL Visual Basic for Applications Overview htt...
We have published some new content about VBA in Office 2010: Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Excel 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 Getting Started wit...
OKmy title is kind of colloquial. But I'm in a hurry, and the title conveys the idea well enough.
Here's the deal: I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of important data. But, some of the most distinctiv...
Not infrequently I am asked, So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it supported? Should I migrate away from VBA now? Can I count on this technology? (Here I go with a respo...
The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-comin...
You might be tempted to think that, given that Im so-called insider Id know all about everything in Office 2010. But, the fact is that there is so much to the products in Office that few people can kn...
As I spent a ton of time at Tech Ed, I was super impressed by the immense amount of interest in Office 2010. I know the excitement will only grow, and one of the best ways for you, the devoted Office ...
TechEd 2009 is a done deal. I wanted to toss out a few observations from the event. Heres what really stood out: 1) The overall mood was pleasantly up-beat and the attendance was solid. The economic t...
Im have been a fan of VBA since its inception. I instantly saw how powerful the Office applications could be because they came with an impressively rich set of APIs, tools, and capabilities. Along wit...
I recent wrote (Twitter from Excel 2007) about how Chandoo (Plus JP) caught my attention with their quirky take on updating Twitter from Excel. In there, I said I would lay down an expanded, more usef...
In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese, writes that the key to saving money in IT is granularity. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experi...
I am frequently asked about how to do some of the basics with XML parts in Office documents. There are excellent blogs and content out there to guide you in working with Office Open XML such as Brian ...
Many of the investments developers make in Office 2007 are version-durable (read: they are likely to endure into the next version of Office). Some of the Office 2007 technologies that are so appealing...
SharePoint development is a special skill, so special that if you want to make a decent living, are tired of your current job, and can learn quickly, then get going with how to build solutions on Shar...
Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Visual Studio,Office,Microsoft,Devleoper,MSDN,VSTO,VBA,WPF,OBA We just released the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2! The Microsoft Office Interactive ...
What are customers doing with VSTO and Microsoft technologies generally? We have recently published case studies that show how and what companies are doing with our tools Below are two prominent stud...
Technorati Tags: SharePoint,VSTO,VS 2008,Office,MOSS,Ribbon,XML,Workflow,Developer,Troubleshoot,API,Interop,.NET,UI Here were are nearly on the eve of our Visual Studio 2008 Launch event and we are al...
Chad Z. Hower, aka "Kudzu", A Microsoft colleague has created a VSTO application that lets you analyze Wiimote motions for the Nintendo Wii: http://www.kudzuworld.com/blogs/tech/20070819.aspx Yeah...
I am running Windows Vista (liking it more every day), and a Windows Update failed. I received this error message, and I did not know what it meant. Here's a little trick to use that will give you the...
Whew! We're working hard on Visual Studio Codename "Orcas", and that has kept me extraordinarily busy. One of the things I have been working a lot on has been our cool SharePoint workflow tools in V...
I have been intending to mention a great article by Robert Bogue about getting started with SharePoint workflow development: Wrangling SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio "SharePoint and Workflow...
My colleague, Darryn Lavery, just finished the update to his very popular VSTO 2005 deployment paper. This update includes information specific to our VSTO 2005 Second Edition update we released last ...
On one of our internal Microsoft discussion lists someone asked for a feature comparison between Office 2003 and Office 2007. One of our great support engineers sent a tidy list of articles that while...
I have to admit that I am being steadily won over by Windows Vista. I was running pre-RTM builds, and while I recognized some pleasing improvements, I was not exactly overwhelmed. I hoped that RTM wou...
Let's get honest: it routinely feels like a shot in the dark. Here's the scenario: Someone in management is legitimately trying to organize resources and push some projects forward. He or she may be p...
(I'm missing my friend, Chris Kunicki, and his sure-footed instincts about Office development. He's beening pursuing philanthropic interests full-time and will be for as long as I can tell, so he...
I'm working on a SharePoint v3 workflow project using the out-of-the-box (OOB) techniques. In order to install the workflow, you need to know the public key token for the signed assembly that you add ...
First, I have some info about our CTP release of VSTO v3, and then I blog about the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new double CD: Stadium Arcadium.
Microsoft Pre-Release Software Visual Studio Tools For Offi...
Have you ever been in a conversation or meeting when terms are being used that you somehow sense you should already know? Happens all of the time. Well, let me help every one out here by telling a big...
Julie Kremer (everyone should know her) had a great post in March about how to overwrite a custom XML part in an Office 2007 file in the Office Open XML format. Her sample is great. She provided it in...
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