Mark Bower
Random thoughts on Collaborative Apps, Social Software and SharePoint in the Enterprise
Problems installing SQL 2005 April CTP
I hit a showstopper installing the SQL Server 2005 April CTP. I think the problem may have been...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/23/2005
BillG sets the direction for Information Worker platform
In his latest Executive email Thursday BillG set out Microsoft's vision for the Information Worker...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/20/2005
New SharePoint blogger on the block
Please welcome my buddy and sometime room-mate Michael O'Donovan to the blogosphere. Michael is...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/16/2005
Windows Desktop Search RTW
Windows Desktop Search has been Released to Web: https://toolbar.msn.com/ The Beta version, then...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/16/2005
Task oriented Windows
Interesting discussion on Ryan Dawson's blog around a task-oriented UI for Windows....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/15/2005
BBC makes it content available to developers free of charge
This is an interesting move by the BBC. It is opening up its content and providing APIs...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/13/2005
Is Windows Too Complex for Structured Task Workers?
A number of my customers have recently presented me with an interesting question. Some CIOs and...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/05/2005
Fabrikam Learning Platform available for pre-order
The documentation has been available on MSDN for around 6 months now, but at long last the Office...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 04/26/2005
Office 2003 PIAs now available as a Reditributable Package
The Office 2003 licence said that the Primary Interop Assemblies that ship with Office were not...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 04/24/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - coming to a download site near you!
Good news! Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the SQL Server April CTP are on their way. The Beta 2 build...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 04/15/2005
Microsoft Acquires Groove Networks
Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie,...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 03/10/2005
Quick Tip: Learning the Office Object Model
This is an old one, but still a good one. Want to do something programmatically in Word/Excel etc....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 03/09/2005
New Project
Been a bit quiet of late as I have been working on a couple of 3 week proof-of-concept projects....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 03/05/2005
Word 2003 XML SDK Download available
Title says it all really....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/27/2005
Gates and Sinofsky spill the beans on the future of InfoPath
Just been watching more of the BillG keynote from the Office Dev Con. The second part of the session...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/09/2005
At last…an integrated web/email/NNTP discussion platform!
Rob Howard’s recent post on the future of Community Server Forums (formerly ASP.NET Forums) ties in...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/09/2005
Office 12 to include Workflow Capabilities
After the first murmurings around Exchange 12, a little more Office 12 info is starting to eek out....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/07/2005
Blogmap
This is neat. Chandu Thota has updated his blogmap project to provide a resource where you can...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/07/2005
MSDN 'Nuggets'
I remember having a chat with Joel Semeniuk last Autumn around the usefulness (or not) of webcasts....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/03/2005
Threading, Responsive UIs and the End of the Free Lunch
[...Or Deciding Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming Models] There was a time when...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/31/2005
MSDN Magazine Office Special
The February MSDN Magazine is devoted in large part to Office development. John Durant write on...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/27/2005
Choosing Between Smart Client and Thin Client Architectures
Great new article from David Hill in the MS Architect's Journal on choosing between smart client and...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/27/2005
Early news on Exchange 12 features
Looks like our execs have started talking about some of the features planned for Exchange 12:...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/25/2005
Wrapping-up the chat on SharePoint Discussion Lists
Thanks for all the great comments over the past week or around SharePoint discussion lists. The...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/18/2005
SharePoint discussion lists: What's needed to make them work?
I posted my theory yesterday on why SharePoint discussion lists aren't used more. The votes are in...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/11/2005
Attatching an XML Expansion Pack to a document programmatically
Avner writes about how to attach a smart document XML Expansion Pack to a document programmatically:...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/11/2005
Does anyone use SharePoint Discussion Lists?
One of the most underused features of Windows SharePoint Services is discussion lists. I don't think...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/10/2005
What's in a name? The Information Worker, The Knowledge Worker and The Structured Task Worker
The other day I was explaining to a customer about the different types of Information Worker. Doing...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/06/2005
How To Submit Ideas and Suggestions for Microsoft Office Products
Do you have an idea for a new feature or addition to one of the Office products? Maybe there is...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/04/2005
Document Library TreeView WebPart [via Patrick Tisseghem]
This looks like a valuable addition to the SharePoint developer's arsenal. I haven't tried it...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/16/2004
Doing Office Development? Get this book...
If you are doing any kind of dev with Office using managed code you really need to get a copy of...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/16/2004
New Article: Applying Branding to SharePoint Portal Server 2003
My buddy Dan has just had a couple of truly excellent artictles published on MSDN. Highly...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/16/2004
Mark your diaries: 2005 PDC
The dates for the 2005 PDC have been announced: 13-16 Sep in Los Angeles....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/16/2004
Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search
By now you will have seen that the MSN Desktop Search Beta is available. (If you haven't, what have...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/16/2004
Word 2003 CDK/SDK
It's been a long time coming…but a week or so back the Word 2003 SDK finally went live. Back when...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/19/2004
People Finder Web Part
Download Sample SPS 2003 contains a search scope called People, but counter to most people's...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/17/2004
VSTO 2005 Demo Videos
A bunch of short demo videos from the VSTO 2005 team focussed on common tasks developers need to...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 10/28/2004
BizTalk Blogger's Guide via Jan Tielens
Jan Tielens writes that the Blogger’s Guide to BizTalk has been released. BizTalk is a product that...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 10/11/2004
My OneNote Wish List
Let me be absolutely clear - I have no inside information about what is planned for Office 12, but...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 10/08/2004
The most annoying thing about OneNote
Don't get me wrong, I love OneNote, especially now that the SP1 build fixes many of the little...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 10/07/2004
Hosting Windows Forms controls in the Office Task Pane
OK, here's a question I hear frequently: I want a richer user interface in my Smart Document task...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/27/2004
New: Research Services Development Extras
I't been a long time coming, but the Microsoft Office Research Services Development Extras that I...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/20/2004
Web Parts in Whidbey
I have been spending a little time recently looking at web parts in ASP.NET 2.0. That's right, if...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/17/2004
InfoPath Viewer Sample Updated
I have made a few minor updates to the InfoPath Viewer sample app: Passes user context when...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/09/2004
Article: InfoPath Viewer Sample Application
Recently I have heard a number of people (Chris Kunicki and LauraJ for instance) musing why there...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/11/2004
InfoPath 2003 Form Viewer Sample Application
Introduction Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 provides a powerful way of designing and deploying...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/10/2004
Developer Information for WinXP SP2
So, the much awaited Windows XP Service Pack 2 RTMed Friday, and by now should be available to...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/09/2004
InfoPath 2003 SDK Updated
A new version of the InfoPath 2003 SDK has been released to include new information and updated...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/09/2004
Lookout for Outlook now available as free download
Following the recent acquisition of Lookout Software, Lookout for Outlook has been made available as...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/28/2004
Office 2003 Service Pack 1 released!
Apart from the usual round of fixes this update includes lots of new functionality for the newest...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/28/2004