Every once in a while, we learn of neat apps that have been created with the Office development tools in Visual Studio.
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Demonstrating how to sync Facebook events to Outlook
Demonstrating how to sync Facebook events to Outlook
Open XML SDK 2.0 April CTP Live & Silverlight DeepZoom Class Architecture Diagrams
For all of those fans of Open XML and followers of updates done to the Open XML Format SDK 2.0, one more happy day has arrived.
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Open XML SDK 2.0 April CTP Live & Silverlight DeepZoom Class Architecture Diagrams
Announcing the Release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April 2009 CTP
I’m really happy to announce the release of the second CTP for version 2 of the Open XML SDK ! Back in October 2008 I showed you guys an architecture diagram of the Open XML SDK. Let’s take another look at this diagram: In version 1 of the Open XML SDK we released the Open XML Packaging API, which allows you to create, open and manipulate Open XML files at the package and part level. In the first CTP of version 2 we released the Open XML Low Level DOM and Stream Reading/Writing components, which allow you to create and manipulate objects within xml parts contained in an Open XML package.
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Announcing the Release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April 2009 CTP
How Do I: Build an Outlook Form Region to Input Time Records in Office Accounting?
This video shows how to create a “mini-OBA” that integrates Outlook with Office Small Business Accounting 2008. This demo shows how to: build an adjoining form region, work with the Small Business Accounting API, fill form region controls with Small Business Accounting data, create time slips from within Outlook and store data from Office Small Business Accounting in Outlook.
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How Do I: Build an Outlook Form Region to Input Time Records in Office Accounting?
SharePoint Gets Boost With Microsofts Visual Studio 2010
sharepoint will gain expanded support with visual studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010 could arrive late this year, based on two-year release cycles for Visual Studio .
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Sharepoint tools support in Visual Studio
Today, developers can use Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 to develop solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS). In addition to the features in VS 2005 and VS 2008, developers can also use Visual Studio Extensions for WSS and dozens of third party tools
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Links for February 6th 2009: Workflow Development Resources Interactive Map, Join Us on Facebook, + Lots of New Articles and Downloads
It’s cold and raining here in Redmond. Perfect weather for writing a blog entry.
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Add a Missing Feature to Visual Studio
Visual Studio is an incredible IDE. I hate working with any other editor simply because VS has turned me into a lazy developer. Still, for all its greatness VS has gaps in its functionality. Luckily, MSFT has exposed the VS API just like they have with Office.
Using this API you can add the killer feature you think VS needs to work the way you do. Even better, MSFT just released the VSIP Factory at http://www.codeplex.com/vsipfactory
This software factory creates the framework needed for a VS package. This allows you to worry less about how to connect your addin to VS and worry more about how to implement the required features.
I recommend taking a look. I also recommend visiting the Visual Studio Extensibility Portal hosted by Devx.com (http://www.devx.com/vstudioextensibility). This site highlights several products that integrate with VS and could provides good coverage as to the possibilities Visual Studio Extensibility offers.