John R. Durant's WebLog
Blog of "The" Office Developer
Promoting Office 2010 in Peru
I just completed a much-needed 2 week vacation in Peru with one of my sons. While there, I wore my...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/20/2010
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011: Which Band Should Perform?
As you all know the SharePoint Conference last year in Las Vegas was a great show (here are links to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/17/2010
Microsoft Office 2010 General Availability
So, I was at TechEd 2010 talking a lot about Office 2010 solutions development last week and love...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/15/2010
Open XML at TechEd 2010
Open XML was a big part of my first session at TechEd 2010 called, "Office 2010: Developing the Next...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/10/2010
Microsoft Office Programmability Delivers for Consultant’s Customers
I’ve talked with with many dozens of customers here at TechEd 2010 about Office 2010 and shown...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/08/2010
New Office VBA site launch on MSDN
MSDN now features a special site (also accessible via www.iheartmacros.com) dedicated to Microsoft...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/07/2010
Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010: Platform for Innovation
There's a great new article by Michael Desmond in Visual Studio Magazine called "Office Alignment:...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/02/2010
Keeping It Real With Microsoft Office: Asking Questions About Solution Design
I just finished a whirlwind swing through Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, and finally Vienna Austria....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/05/2010
Microsoft TechDays 2010 in Antwerp Belgium
I caught a train from Den Haag to Antwerp in Belgium on Wednesday afternoon. You can see the Dutch...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/03/2010
Microsoft DevDays 2010 Day #3 with Open XML
I've been running at a fast pace for the past few days, so I'm going to add a few posts here to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/03/2010
Microsoft DevDays 2010 Day 2
I delivered a session today that describes what's new in Office 2010 for solution developers. It's a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/30/2010
Getting Started Integrating Windows Azure with Microsoft Office Solutions
Nearly everyone starts learning anything new by beginning with something simple and adding...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/30/2010
Microsoft DevDays 2010 Day #1
It's been an eventful day here at Microsoft DevDays 2010, and the show hasn't even officially...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/29/2010
Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Is Live
I speak with customers every day about the productivity solutions they build using Microsoft Office....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/15/2010
Microsoft Office Developer Sessions from SharePoint Conference 2009 Now Live
Readers of the blog know that SharePoint Conference 2009 had some pretty memorable highlights. Now,...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/11/2010
Microsoft Office 2010 Developer Video Shoot
I just felt like doing a different kind of post today. I spent some time on camera yesterday as part...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/05/2010
New MSDN Office Developer Center Update
Erika, the site owner for the MSDN Office Developer Center, announced today an important visual...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/03/2010
Excel Open XML & LINQ Part I
In the next few posts I'll roll out a little project for Excel that uses Open XML and LINQ. The...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/19/2010
Outlook and LinkedIn
Many of you have heard that we announced the Outlook Social Connector back at PDC 2009. The...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/17/2010
Excel 2010 XML Maps
We introduced Excel XML Map objects in Excel 2003. We carried those forward into Excel 2007 and, of...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/29/2010
New Office Developer Guild Logos
The ODG logos have been updated with the new Office 2010 brand logo. Also, by request, I have added...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/28/2010
New Office 2010 Developer Video
We just published a new video on MSDN that provides a great starting point for understanding what...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/26/2010
Excel VBA Cells and Hyperlinks
I track some information in Excel, and one of the columns is for a link to some location (blogs, Web...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/07/2010
Application Compatibility and Microsoft Office Solutions (+ another installment of “Rock Thought”)
When I was a consultant my customers ranged from small companies to big Fortune 100 enterprises. No...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/09/2009
Helpful Content Links for Getting Started with Office Development
I’m often asked for helpful content links for content around VBA, Microsoft Office Backstage view,...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/07/2009
VBA in Office 2010 Articles Live!
We have published some new content about VBA in Office 2010: Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/23/2009
VBA code I wrote this week in Excel and how it helped me
OK—my title is kind of colloquial. But I'm in a hurry, and the title conveys the idea well enough....
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/30/2009
Adding Event Code to Microsoft Office Backstage View Customizations
In my last post, I introduced the basic recipe of how to customize the Microsoft Office Backstage...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/28/2009
Customizing the Backstage view and Ribbon UI in Office 2010
One of the presentations I delivered at SPC 2009 was the title of this blog post. Don't worry—I'll...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/27/2009
Office 2010 Developer at SPC & “What’s the end-user value?”
Whew! What a week at the SharePoint Conference! Let me re-cap some highlights for you and talk for a...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/23/2009
Why VBA Still Makes Sense
Not infrequently I am asked, “So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/07/2009
Office Developer Guild is Live!
The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/30/2009
Office 2010 Developer: What's New!
Buckle in! This is a full-throttled post! If you’ve been following the press and the excitement...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 07/14/2009
Office 2010 for Developers: Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009
As I spent a ton of time at Tech Ed, I was super impressed by the immense amount of interest in...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/01/2009
Unleash your inner-VBA (Plus a review of the new Silversun Pickups CD)
I’m have been a fan of VBA since its inception. I instantly saw how powerful the Office applications...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/20/2009
Microsoft Excel and Twitter via Smart Tags in a VS 2008 Solution
I recent wrote (“Twitter from Excel 2007”) about how Chandoo (Plus JP) caught my attention with...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/16/2009
www.iheartonenote.com
I truly enjoy being enthusiastic about OneNote. I’m not ashamed of my unguarded devotion to this...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/10/2009
Twitter from Excel 2007
I cannot think of any compelling reason for sending a tweet from a form in Excel other than it's...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/05/2009
Adding and Binding XML in Office Documents
I am frequently asked about how to do some of the basics with XML parts in Office documents. There...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/18/2009
Office 2007 (and beyond) Developer Resources: Looking ahead
Many of the investments developers make in Office 2007 are version-durable (read: they are likely to...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/05/2009
SharePoint Developer Tools: Announcing Public CTP Release of VSeWSS 1.3
SharePoint development is a special skill, so special that if you want to make a decent living, are...
Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/12/2009