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Head in the Clouds

As a software architect, my head is often in the clouds, dreaming of the future. And the future is increasingly in the cloud...

When I started writing my first Azure app, one of the first issues I ran into was dealing with Azure...

Date: 02/01/2011

This will be, in restaurant parlance, a "soft opening": no fanfare, we'll see if anyone notices. If...

Date: 02/01/2011

There have been spurious reports in the media saying that VBA is dead. Caused quite a firestorm...

Date: 01/17/2008

Good news here -- for me especially :). The demo code from my VSTO Architecture talk at TechEd and...

Date: 11/30/2007

And out of the dark... I've been dark for a while now, time to come out and let you know what's been...

Date: 06/14/2007

VSTA has been officially released now, in InfoPath in the 2007 Office System, and for use by third...

Date: 12/05/2006

Office 2007 is official today, so it is time to update my Form Region Sample. The big difference is...

Date: 12/01/2006

I've finally finished my Form Region Sample for Outlook 2007 that was promised. I've been working on...

Date: 10/30/2006

It's good to be home. But we had a great time in Europe and learned a ton. The best thing I learned...

Date: 10/10/2006

It has been almost two weeks now since I arrived in Europe. As noted, I had hoped to blog more, but...

Date: 10/01/2006

Wow, I can't beleive that it has been more than two months since I posted, but the numbers don't...

Date: 09/20/2006

I've been working on this on and off since TechEd. I had a customer ask if it was possible to use...

Date: 07/11/2006

I'm doing a "chalk-talk" today at TechEd -- at 3:45 in DEV (Blue area) Theatre 1 in the TLC. The...

Date: 06/14/2006

Mike Hernandez and I are speaking today (3:15 in room 153) about VSTO 'v3' and what we are doing...

Date: 06/12/2006

One of the biggest complaints we had on the February CTP of VSTO v3 was that you couldn't run your...

Date: 06/06/2006

So many of you have noticed that we got a little surprised by WinFX Beta2. The June Customer...

Date: 06/06/2006

TechEd in Boston is only a couple weeks away now. Unfortunately, if you haven't already registered,...

Date: 05/26/2006

Those of you who have been following my blog will note that I have retroactively added some...

Date: 05/26/2006

Geez, did I make you wait long enough!?! I have been remiss, hopefully I will have time to do this...

Date: 05/17/2006

We are hiring! Would you like to help realize the vision of Office as a development platform? Do you...

Date: 03/07/2006

Just a quick note to reinforce the announcement of the VSTA SDK Community Technical Preview. This...

Date: 02/10/2006

I'm sure that everyone's reaction to the contract concept is that it is very strict, that it can get...

Date: 01/16/2006

I just noticed my last post was from October. How time flies once we get to the Holiday season. I...

Date: 01/16/2006

I know its been a while, but I've been busy coding lately. That code will become public fairly soon,...

Date: 10/28/2005

The .NET Programming Model makes a clean distinction between Reference and Value on three different...

Date: 10/06/2005

In my post What is an Addin? I said that a "contract" is just that: "a previously decided upon...

Date: 09/22/2005

OK, I know I said my next post would be an in depth treatment of IContract, but I remembered I...

Date: 09/15/2005

As I noted we also unveiled yesterday the Managed Addin Framework (MAF). MAF is necessary...

Date: 09/15/2005

Today we announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA). As Eric Rudder said, think of VSTA...

Date: 09/14/2005

I noted in an earlier post that I was involved in a committee to establish an Addin Model for...

Date: 09/13/2005

Now that we know how to spell it, let’s define our terms. The definition of the word “Addin” it...

Date: 09/13/2005

Hello out there. I am, as you can see by my profile, as Software Architect at Microsoft. That title...

Date: 08/24/2005