Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples

This guide has four accompanying samples, covering all of the scenarios described in the book: a typical on-premises application, the first migration to Windows Azure and subsequent optimizations.

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Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples

Reading Data from External List using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object model

One of the demos I showed this week was the integration of the new SharePoint 2010 client object model (SP COM) and an external list. The SP COM is a way to work with lists where you create and execute batch commands against your SharePoint 2010 server. You can find more information here: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/ .

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Reading Data from External List using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object model

Dealing with the “ambiguous outer joins” message

Today’s guest blogger is Colin Wilcox, writer for Access Training on Office Online. When you query multiple tables for data, you sometimes see a message about “ambiguous outer joins.” The message tells you to create a separate query that performs one of the joins, and then include that first query in your SQL statement

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Dealing with the “ambiguous outer joins” message

Creating a Research Service for Word 2007 in C# with Visual Studio 2008

This post examines how to build research services for Word and other Office applications.

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Creating a Research Service for Word 2007 in C# with Visual Studio 2008

Data bars in an Access query

Mike Alexander (Excel MVP) recently sent me a very cool trick that I hadn’t seen before. He uses some simple hackery and trickery to get data bars in a query

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Data bars in an Access query