Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 is what the marketing folks call it. Engineers call it Mac Office 12.2.0 or “SP2” for short.
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Announcing Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2
Create databases with MS Access, make then web apps with Zoho
Filed under: Internet , Office , Web services , web 2.0 Online office software makers Zoho have released a new plugin for Microsoft Access that lets you export an Access database to Zoho Creator and essentially turn it into a web application with little to no effort. Zoho Creator is basically a collaborative, web-based database application, while Access is strictly desktop-based. You could just create your web app/database in Zoho Creator, but if you’re either more comfortable with Access this new plugin could save a lot of time
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Create databases with MS Access, make then web apps with Zoho
Free report wizard offer from Gladstone
Mike Hnatt has generously extended to the Access blog readers a FREE version of Gladstone’s Access Report Writer . Traditionally, he has sold the developer version of the wizard for $995
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Free report wizard offer from Gladstone
Reporting Services 2008 in SharePoint Integrated Mode
It seems that I have a different experience every time I install this configuration. A few key points if you are thinking of doing this: Integrated mode only works for SharePoint Web Applications on the Default Zone Integrated mode will not work on a Web Application that has Anonymous access enabled If you have a multiple SharePoint Server Farm: Install the SSRS SharePoint Add-in on the server hosting Central Admin first Instruction say that you only require a "Files Only" install of the add-in on the other WFE's but this is not enough. copyappbincontent stsadm command must also be executed on each WFE If using Kerberos and NLB, the DNS entry for the Web Application URL must be an A record, not CNAME Even if you have configured Kerberos on your MOSS farm, clients might still be authenticating using NTLM if this is not an A record (KerbTray and http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2009/06/12/Testing-SharePoint-Kerberos-Configuration.aspx will help confirm/debug this) I struck all of these problems across 2 customers in the last 2 days…
Another Office Customization with Beta 1 – Excel Add-in with Custom Task Pane
I recently downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and have been playing around with the different features for Office Business Application development. For the public Beta 1, you’ll be limited to the 2007-centric templates (e.g. Excel 2007 Add-in, Word 2007 Document, etc.), but the nice thing is that if you’re familiar with these templates when future Betas are released you’ll already have had a chance to get experience with the Beta 1
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Another Office Customization with Beta 1 – Excel Add-in with Custom Task Pane
Signing and re-signing manifests in ClickOnce (Saurabh Bhatia)
ClickOnce manifest signing can be a little confusing for someone going through the process the very first time.
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Signing and re-signing manifests in ClickOnce (Saurabh Bhatia)
Excel Services Getting Started – Pt2 UDFs
This continues my previous checklist on getting started with Excel Services. Here, I’ll append a walkthrough for creating, deploying and updating User-Defined Function assemblies with Excel Services. 4.
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Excel Services Getting Started – Pt2 UDFs
Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
I just popped a headline onto the Visual Basic Developer Center (which also appears on the VS start page for all of us that have selected the VB development settings 
) about the release of Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly known as ” Prism “). Cool, more things to play with! Here’s an excerpt from the download page : The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications.
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Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
SharePoint – Add IntelliSense when editing CAML files in WSS v3 …
After years of developing code using VS.NET IntelliSense feature its pretty painful to write CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) in XML files where. Tech Cocktail – http://www.praveenmodi.com/
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