John R. Durant's WebLog

2021-08-06

Blog of "The" Office Developer

Job Change: Bring back the blog

I used to blog a lot, and a lot of people used to read my blog. Some people still look at the old...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/05/2008

Release of Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office Case Studies

What are customers doing with VSTO and Microsoft technologies generally? We have recently published...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/27/2008

Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2!

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Visual Studio,Office,Microsoft,Devleoper,MSDN,VSTO,VBA,WPF,OBA We just...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/27/2008

Visual Studio Tools for Office Power Tools v1.0!

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,VSTO,VS...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/22/2008

Worldwide Software Democracy

It's true- to give is better than to receive...for the right reasons and in the right way. Video:...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/22/2008

Chad Z. Hower aka "Kudzu"VSTO Excel Solution for the Wii

Chad Z. Hower, aka "Kudzu", A Microsoft colleague has created a VSTO application that lets you...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/21/2007

NET helpmsg

I am running Windows Vista (liking it more every day), and a Windows Update failed. I received this...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 06/14/2007

Updated Deployment Papers for VSTO 2005 SE

My colleague, Darryn Lavery, just finished the update to his very popular VSTO 2005 deployment...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/09/2007

Office File Conversion Tool

The Office Migration Planning Manager tool is now final and up on the Microsoft download...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/20/2007

What's New in Office 2007- Article List

On one of our internal Microsoft discussion lists someone asked for a feature comparison between...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/08/2006

Where did "Local Settings"; and "Application Data" go or "Where do I put my Outlook signatures on Vista?"

I have to admit that I am being steadily won over by Windows Vista. I was running pre-RTM builds,...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 11/30/2006

Product and Corporate Odds and Ends

I'm cleaning up my inbox, and I have a whole mess of odds and ends (some just product announcements)...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 10/20/2006

Outlook 2007 and the NavigationModule

I feel empathy for the person who is tackling Outlook development for the first time. Thanks to a...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/28/2006

Time/Resources/Features

Being a PM at Microsoft boils down to being a project manager. Some PMs are really technical while...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 09/14/2006

Assemblies and Public Key Tokens

I'm working on a SharePoint v3 workflow project using the out-of-the-box (OOB) techniques. In order...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/24/2006

First Look at Windows Vista Part 2

Alright, so my upgrade went well. That's cool. Here are random likes and dislikes: Start Menu I like...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/16/2006

First Look at Windows Vista

Well, I am back to blogging after emerging from a vortex here at work over the past five months....

Author: John R. Durant Date: 08/14/2006

VSTO v3 CTP & Stadium Arcadium

First, I have some info about our CTP release of VSTO v3, and then I blog about the Red Hot Chili...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/23/2006

Using Using According to Proper Usage

Have you ever been in a conversation or meeting when terms are being used that you somehow sense you...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/02/2006

Overwrite Custom XML Part in Office 2007 file

Julie Kremer (everyone should know her) had a great post in March about how to overwrite a custom...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/28/2006

OpenXMLDeveloper.org and Bill Gates Keynote

I just left the Office Developer Conference 2006 keynote where Chairman and Chief Software...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/21/2006

Want to be my co-worker?

Yeah, you could have an office just a couple of doors down from me, and that could be a good thing....

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/09/2006

Singleton Windows Form example for Office Developers

Every now and then, a request comes through the forums or ng's about how to code an application so...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/28/2006

UDFs in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office: put your VBA where it belongs

I fielded a question from an eager VSTO developer in the forums. It was about the UDF-managed code...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/20/2006

Accessing the COMAddins Collection

I have had the question posed to me twice in the last week: If I am automating Outlook from another...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/30/2006

Host Word in winform Application

We had a question in the VSTO Forums about hosting Word on a winform in .NET. I thought I would give...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/23/2006

Unsung Heros of Office Development

I think I am going to more frequently call out people who amaze the heck out of me. The biggest risk...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/19/2006

ServerDocument in VSTO 2005 and Adolesence

We are pushing more, and more, and more content about VSTO all of time. We just had one go live that...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/18/2006