Microsoft has officially removed the beta label from its Office 365 service, but a few questions remain for small businesses.
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Office 365: three questions for small businesses
Office 365: three questions for small businesses
The Asus Eee Slate is Compelling
I’m ready to get my hands on the the Asus Eee Slate. I think I could get into that. Channel 9 has a video that shows how Asuss + Office 2010 will work. It looks good to me.
It isn’t an iPad but I don’t want it to be. I want to be a table/slate-based PC. Highly portable and highly productive.
I wonder what impact the Eee Slate will have on Office Development.
When I have my grubby hands on the Eee slate, I plan to find out.
How to Setup a SharePoint and Office VHD for Development on the C9 SharePoint Sideshow
Some time back I provided this post on how to use the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) to setup a SharePoint and Office 2010 development environment. In this new SharePoint Sideshow video on Channel 9, Paul and I walk through the process and we also include some tips along the way. So check out the video and get yourself setup for Office development in a separate, isolated environment (i.e.
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New SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Developer Training on MSDN!
After a few months of hiding in my office working on some cool new projects, I come out of my shell with exciting news.
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New SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Developer Training on MSDN!
Object Model Considerations for Protected View in Word 2010
I got some great questions recently about macros and Protected View in Word 2010, and thought I'd write something up to help anyone else who's looking at this issue – enjoy! Word 2010 includes enhancements to security, one of which is the inclusion of a Protected View used when opening files from untrusted sources (e.g.
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Object Model Considerations for Protected View in Word 2010
Using Microsoft Word to Create Reports For LightSwitch (or Silverlight)
LightSwitch has a really nice feature on data grids that allow you to export them to Excel if running out of browser (full trust). This gives you a basic way of getting data out of the system to create reports or do further analysis on the data using Excel. However, in business applications you typically want to provide some client-side reporting that also formats the data in a certain way so it can be printed easily.
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Using Microsoft Word to Create Reports For LightSwitch (or Silverlight)
Video: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010
Watch this video as you learn to create a BCS external content type for Office 2010 based on a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.
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Video: Connecting to a WCF Service Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010
Sample: Deploying Multiple Office 2010 Projects in One Package
Explore the code in this visual how-to article as you learn to deploy an Office solution that uses ClickOnce deployment.
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Sample: Deploying Multiple Office 2010 Projects in One Package
Video: Deploying an Office 2007 .NET 3.5 project and an Office 2010 NET 4.0 Project
Watch this visual how-to video as you learn to build Office solutions that target both .NET Framework 3.5 and .NET Framework 4.
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Video: Deploying an Office 2007 .NET 3.5 project and an Office 2010 NET 4.0 Project
Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in
To continue the theme of landing external data in Office 2010, I’ve taken a demo excerpt from a session I presented at a conference last week to show how easy it is to land OData information in an add-in. In this sample I simply use the Northwind Database which is a publicly available OData producer .
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Accessing an OData Producer using an Office 2010 Add-in