Speaking at Dallas SharePoint Developer Group

I will be taking my international road show just down the street to speak at this month’s Dallas SharePoint Developer Group meeting. I’ll be covering How To Integrate Sharepoint With Office And Line-Of-Business Applications. What I plan to do is show-off how to use Office as the front-end to solutions that work with SharePoint.   For fun, I’ll show how to integrate data from a sales... [Read more]

Learn How to Customize Outlook’s User Interface (attend my session at Tech-Ed)

  Next week I am presenting a session at Tech-Ed that shows off a few cool techniques for customizing Outlook. I’ll presenting with one a fellow Cogent Company cohort, Damon Armstrong. If you are interested in customizing Outlook and want to learn how to customize its UI then you don’t want to miss this session. We’ll cover the basics while implementing a business process that allows us... [Read more]

Invest 5 Minutes and Learn about VSTO Frequently Asked Questions

  The Ins-and-Outs of VSTO Can Be Confusing Developing solutions with Microsoft Office using VSTO can be difficult as it isn’t as straight-forward as targeting a version of the .NET Framework to support and then proceeding with all the activities involved with developing a custom solution. Nope. If you are targeting Office, you are potentially dealing with several versions of Office. If so,... [Read more]

Use VBA To Reset Task Due Dates in Outlook

There was an earlier version of this post. It had more words and as it went on and on about how I track damn near everything in Outlook. It’s true. Everything. If I don’t track something I want to do or have to do as an Outlook task, it won’t get done. I deleted that post by accident as I thought I was deleting something else. As it turns out, the wrong Window had the focus when I hit the Delete... [Read more]

How Do I: Setup and Configure the Excel Data-Mining Add-in?

New video on MSDN… This video shows how configure to setup the Data Mining Client For Excel addin. This addin is part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 download available at: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=896A493A-2502-4795-94AE-E00632BA6DE7. Here is the original post: How Do I: Setup and Configure the Excel Data-Mining... [Read more]