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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

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

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

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