John R. Durant's WebLog

Blog of "The" Office Developer

Excel XML Tools Released

Two of my buddies, Office Zealot kingpin Chris Kunicki and Excel zealot (and always colorful)...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/17/2005

Bookmark Confusion in Microsoft Word

One of my colleagues and I were messing around with Word bookmarks, doing some testing etc. We put...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/16/2005

Parameter Info text for Office in VS.NET

As a PM I need to have a broad yet also deep view of what we deliver. I find myself scrutinizing...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/09/2005

XPath- multiple criteria in a contains() expression

There are times when working on technical projects where you hit a roadblock. There is some...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 05/02/2005

Office 2003 Virtual Developer Labs Online

I've been meaning to make sure I gave this a plug for a few days, but it's been busy. We are working...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/28/2005

Visual Studio Tools for Office and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2

OK- I know I am behind. It's been a little nutty around here since boy #5 arrived (and I had to...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/21/2005

Another Microsoft Office Solutions Developer joins the ranks

I haven't blogged for a few days because my fifth son was born on Friday morning. I expect to be...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/18/2005

Office and my Tech Ed demos- sneak peak

I am perhaps a bit late with this one, but I was reading about the Acid2 test on slashdot. I need to...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/12/2005

Store Excel Formulas in SQL Server DB

Two of my colleagues, Sergei Gundorov and Clark Hamilton, have been busy, busy, busy. They did a...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/07/2005

Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues

As you know, I call a legacy system "One that works". That said, I am certainly not against...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/05/2005

.NET, Interop, and Office XML

I received a mail from Dino Chiesa (his last name means 'Church' in Italiano!) with a link to his...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/01/2005

Microsoft Word, AutoCaption, and land speed Vespa record

I was trying to figure out something with respect to AutoCaption in Word, and I found MakekTips, a...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 04/01/2005

Microsoft Office - 2 years - 3 moves

Today is my 2nd anniversary of working at Microsoft, all within the Office division. I like working...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/30/2005

SQL Server 2005, .NET Assemblies, and WordML

If you listened to the pod cast I did for Office Zealot last week, I was asked what kinds of...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/29/2005

Microsoft Office Pod Cast

Office Zealot is driving a lot of community involvment for Microsoft Office programmability. One of...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/28/2005

AJAX...I'm not going to mention it

OK- I wasn't going to mention it. I'm not sure why I didn't want to. Sure, the ABM crowd (Anything...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/24/2005

Migrating VBA code to Visual Studio Tools for Office

I am starting to realize that I need to post more than once a day. There's just so much going on....

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/23/2005

Office and Cycling are inseparable

So, I'm riding up the 520 this morning (taking it a little easy because I've had either a brutal...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/22/2005

Automating XML Maps in Excel 2003

As readers of my blog know, I am a huge supporter of the XML features in Word and Excel version...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/21/2005

Microsoft Office DevX Portal launches

This week we launched a new portal on DevX: Microsoft Office Professional Developer Portal. The DevX...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/18/2005

Office 2003 task pane discussion CONTINUES

NOTE: I am sorry that I couldn't update my blog for a few days. I still have proxy issues that...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/15/2005

Office sessions will be strong- register now

Tech·Ed 2005 is only 13 weeks away. It's in Orlando, and that means it's going to be a great time. I...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/10/2005

Task Pane Programming with Office 2003: Not "stupid, stupid, stupid"

On Jan 14 of this year a discriminating member of our audience on the Office Developer Center added...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 03/08/2005

Excel 2003: Infer XSD on XML Import

When you import XML data into Excel End-User: Data | XML | Import Code: ActiveWorkbook.XmlImport...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/23/2005

Microsoft Office Development- while you exercise!

I know- you can't stop thinking about developing for the Microsoft Office System. You wake up in the...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/22/2005

WordProcessingML and XSL-FO: too interesting to ignore

I was pleased to see that Oleg Tkachenko, XML luminary, picked up on our publishing of the XSL-FO...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/21/2005

WordProcessingML and the ISO 8601 Date

When I do a title like this, I want to include audio that does the dramatic organ sound, "Dah, dah,...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/21/2005

VSTO 2005 and Data Sources in Microsoft Office

Alright, I had typed up a nice blog entry when my Toshiba laptop (I have had tons of hardware...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/15/2005

VSTO 2005, Bookmarks and a Concerned Reader

Yesterday, I received feedback from a reader that the screen capture in the post for February 10th...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 02/11/2005

Microsoft Word, XML, and the hierarchical DataSet

I was finalizing some demos for an internal event here at Microsoft. We have an internal conference...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/18/2005

Microsoft Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas- update

I am happy to announce that the update to the Office 2003 XML Reference is Schemas now live. What’s...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/14/2005

WordML and Lists Renumbering- Part II

OK- so in my last entry I described how the XML gets spelled out for the list. I also mentioned that...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/10/2005

WordProcessingML and Numbered Lists Restarting

I get a lot of questions about Word, XML, and how it all works. I get questions about other products...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/07/2005

Outlook and Added Intelligence with Anagram

I need to catch up on a couple of products that I have been reviewing. I am woefully late with this...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 01/04/2005

PINVOKE.NET Add-In for Visual Studio

While working on my little app to handle the character repeat setting on Windows XP, I came across...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/17/2004

Office 2003 Research Services and Amazon data

One of my friends, Charles Maxson, is a wizard of productivity solution development. He's also an...

Author: John R. Durant Date: 12/15/2004

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